ATF has posted their proposed brace rules.

[john armond]

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[jsbhike]

You can use a brace on your SBR’s and carbines.

And neither are a pistol.

[the AR-15 Junkie]

So whats the punishment for not registering your braced pistol and paying the $200 tax?

10 years in jail and up to a $250,000 fine?

What happened to the US Constitution's guarantee that a punishment must fit the crime?

[Gabriel556]

True, but a person with a disability would have to register it as a NFA item in order to use it.

Which makes the brace banned in my state. No NFA here…. I actually asked my disabled senator (Tammy Duckworth-D) how that would affect fellow disabled vets and was brushed off with no comment. Of course she also doesn’t believe commoners have a need for any gun that isn’t reloaded with a ball, wadding, and black powder.

[WillBrink]

You can use a brace on your SBR’s and carbines.

If you pay the government the honor of owning such a thing (which is not Constitutional) and It could be argued that ads a hardship under the ADA. As I said, it's rare for a case made under ADA to fail as no one wants to get blamed for saying no to the disabled.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Let’s not screw around with any kind of ADA defense of this. It’s Second Amendment-based or nothing. To allow them to go around and be able to use the ADA means we have done nothing to protect our rights.

[jsbhike]

Let’s not screw around with any kind of ADA defense of this. It’s Second Amendment-based or nothing. To allow them to go around and be able to use the ADA means we have done nothing to protect our rights.

No reason not to do both.

As Will said, ADA cases rarely fail and the arguments against are often viewed by more of the public as unreasonable and often heinous

[WillBrink]

No reason not to do both.

As Will said, ADA cases rarely fail and the arguments against are often viewed by more of the public as unreasonable and often heinous

You get a group of disabled vets to sue based on ADA hardship and it gets attention that the gubment is trying to prevent them from being able to protect them selves, yada yada, and it may go away as it looks bad and few will want to support that PR optic. It is worth a try for sure.

[The Dumb Gun Collector]

I think our best actual attack will be executive/administrative overreach under the Administrative procedures act. But obviously we need to attack it under the Second Amendment, ADA, and whatever else it violates. This is a particularly nasty piece of rule making by the ATF (following up on the precedent set by the Trumpstock ban). If we lose this there really is no limit to the power that the ATF will have to simply "reinterpret" the law. There is no reason they can't ban all semiautomatics as machine-guns given enough linguistic abuse.

[hotbiggun42]

Perhaps the ACLU will take the case.