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Federal Judge Stays Entire ATF Pistol Brace Rule
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Late Wednesday, a Texas-based Federal District Court judge issued a nationwide stay preventing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from enforcing its rule on pistols equipped with stabilizing devices (2021R-08F).
The case, Britto v. ATF, challenged the “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces'” rule. The ATF created the regulation after an executive order by President Joe Biden directing the Bureau to deal with pistol braces. The ATF would reverse years of classification letters and revoke previous determinations issued to brace manufacturers.
The Britto case challenged the rule, claiming the ATF pistol brace rule violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). The plaintiffs felt the final rule wasn’t a logical outgrowth of the proposed rule. The proposed rule had a point system (ATF Form 4999) that helped individuals determine if their firearm would be considered a braced pistol or short-barreled rifle (SBR). Most of the comments during the public comment period addressed concerns with the form.
When the final rule was unveiled, the point system was removed. The ATF considered all braced pistols on the market to be SBRs and subject to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). Gun owners had four choices.
The first choice was registering their firearm with the ATF per NFA regulations. Gun owners would have to provide pictures of the firearm’s markings, give the government fingerprints, and submit passport pictures to the ATF. Some states, such as California, do not permit NFA items.
The second choice is for gun owners to replace the barrel with a barrel over 16 inches. This change would make the firearm a rifle regulated under the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA). It would mean that the gun owner would have to spend money on expensive rifle parts to bring their firearm into compliance. The third choice is that the gun owner could opt to remove the brace and render it non-reusable, effectively destroying the brace.
The final choice for the gun owner is to turn the firearm into the ATF. Many in the gun world saw this as a forced confiscation by a hostile anti-gun government agency. Firearms are not cheap, meaning that gun owners might be out several hundred to several thousand dollars. If the gun owner chose not to make any of these choices and the ATF caught them, they could be charged with a felony punishable by ten years in prison. This punishment is the same as owning an unregistered machinegun.
https://www.ammoland.com/2023/11/federal-judge-stays-entire-atf-pistol-brace-rule/#ixzz8IcL9lVqt
I Hope the Biden’s Run…
Helmetta man still on run a day after officers tried to serve warrant for Jan. 6 role
Dozens of FBI agents and local police officers are looking for Gregory Yetman, who fled his home Wednesday morning as they attempted to serve him a warrant in connection with the 2021 incident.
"A situation like this of course brings heightened anxiety – it's not normal to see FBI agents and vehicles and tanks in your community," Helmetta Mayor Christopher Slavicek told USA Today. "You never think something like this will happen in your own backyard."
https://news.yahoo.com/helmetta-man-still-run-day-160028255.html