If they can barely process the NFA items they have now, how are they going to process all these braces? And, that's what I think the point is. Its Gun Control by delay delay delay plain and simple. I thought the registration tax i.e., $200 was going to be waived because it was an "amnesty". Them calling it an amnesty is B.S., an Amnesty indicates we were breaking the law, but if we come into compliance we will forgiven. Uh, pistol braces were legal per numerous ATF opinion letters until they just wrote law--which they can't do--and changed their minds. Not a lawyer, but I believe we cannot sue to challenge the rule change until there is a party that will suffer harm, so we have to wait until the rule/LAW comes into effect. Really dumb on their part, typical Feds, because it opens a challenge to the gun control acts of '34, '68' and '86 and the NFA is a house of cards. We should all apply via paperwork so their floor collapses again.
Basically from what I've read online from places like Bearing Arms and NRA
Incoming House Judiciary chair puts Dettelbach, ATF on notice
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/30/incoming-house-judiciary-chair-puts-dettelbach-atf-on-notice-n64819
Nov 30, 2022 – record requests and demands for information about the ATF's new and pending rules on unserialized firearms and pistol stabilizing braces … Jordan also objects to a new ATF policy that classifies “stabilizing braces” intended to allow disabled shooters to better control … Jordan says Congress hasn’t “criminalized the use of a pistol arm-stabilizing brace” under the Gun Control Act of 1968, or allowed…
ATF pistol brace final rule possibly uncovered via budget document
https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2022/09/05/atf-pistol…ace-final-rule-possibly-uncovered-via-budget-document-n62120
Sep 5, 2022 – Currently, there are at least four million braced pistols in the United States. … The subject of the arm braces has been kicked around for quite awhile. … This obsession with arm braces seems to have possibly come from these anti-freedom groups.…
ATF Plans to Finalize Pistol Brace Rule in January
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2023
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20230104/atf-plans-to-finalize-pistol-brace-rule-in-january
In a recent court filing, the Department of Justice claimed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “expects to publish a final rule in January 2023.” That rule is the Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces” which was first proposed by the agency in June 2021. And, is the most recent in a long line of ATF guidance, rulings, and rules regarding firearms with attached stabilizing braces....
Biden Administration Continues Push to Target Firearms with Attached Stabilizing Braces
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2022
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20221212/biden-administration-continues-push-to-target-firearms-with-attached-stabilizing-braces
It seems like we have been warning about the Biden Administration’s intent to reclassify handguns equipped with braces intended to help disabled veteran shooters for quite some time.
There were once signs that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to get out of the practice of making confusing regulations—including those involving stabilizing braces—that appeared to circumvent the authority of Congress to actually define and pass laws regarding firearms. But with Biden’s election in 2020, a reinvigorated faction within ATF began a push to re-examine stabilizing braces. NRA immediately took notice, and put out a call to action....