The obvious fix here is to reclassify assault weapons such that if I stick an arm brace on the back of a semi auto pistol it's not suddenly an assault weapon. That doesn't make sense from a pure logical standpoint.For certain the entire basis for Assault Weapons is pretty screwed up. What useful stuff there is in there is off-set by the sheer absurdity of trivial and fear-based legislation.
I 100% agree with you that this decision was handled poorly. However, pistol braces should have always been illegal or more carefully defined by a letter. It also doesn't make anyone a felon because all you have to do is take off the brace.That's pretty much where most of the reasonable gun influencers I know of stood. I saw a lot of recommendations not to buy an arm brace (Or even film it for your social media/youtube) because it was probably going to get banned. It was obviously circumventing regulations but the ATF just came out and said "Yeah we don't care have fun". They could have put a moratorium on their sale while forming a comprehensive regulation for them but nah.
ATFE should probably buy back all the braces out there that can't be used anymore though.
I feel like it would just make more sense to regulate shit based on actual math related to the stopping power of a gun and not the dimensions.I think regulation should be evidence based with the goal to prevent gun crime (And gun suicide, as a secondary focus). For actual gun features, that means identifying the features of guns that are used for crime, confirming these features are related to their criminal usage, are targeting them with regulation.
Like, if you've got a 45, a mag/barrel can have no more than this much ammo and it can't fire faster than x times per second and can have only so much accuracy out to y range or something like that.
People get too fixated on the fucking shape of the gun and not the bullets that are the ones killing things.
For certain the entire basis for Assault Weapons is pretty screwed up. What useful stuff there is in there is off-set by the sheer absurdity of trivial and fear-based legislation.Which reminds me of my usual assertion that there are no such things as common sense gun laws and regulations: because the ones deciding stupid shit like this have absolutely no common sense regarding firearms whatsoever.
I need to verify the exact wording, but I believe the arm brace regulation also redefines an SBR (Short-barreled rifle) with an arm brace as either being too short (like, under 12 inches) OR too long (over 26 inches). The argument for banning SBRs is that they were too concealable, and now there are SBR's that exist because they're... too long . It's bizarre. You can't just hammer through non-sensical regulation and expect the counter-movement to not get completely fanatical in their defense against it. It's poor governing.
I think regulation should be evidence based with the goal to prevent gun crime (And gun suicide, as a secondary focus). For actual gun features, that means identifying the features of guns that are used for crime, confirming these features are related to their criminal usage, are targeting them with regulation.
Just label guns as a class one narcotic like weed boom problem solved
However, pistol braces should have always been illegal or more carefully defined by a letter.
Yeah most people here wanna outright ban guns so you're not gonna hear much bitching about this.
What is funny though is the fact that literally nobody gets killed by braced AR/AK pistols. I would bet all my guns that less than 10 gun murders last year were braced pistols.
The dumbass gangsters running around killing each other dont put them on their "dracos". In fact they will take shoulder stocks off of legal rifles to make them shorter.
Just another example of DC not giving a fuck about actual violence but getting mad that law abiding citizens found away around their stupid ass $200 tax.
Shooters with ill intent who actually know guns and are proficient and dangerous with them don't use gimmicky shit like this.
Yeah most people here wanna outright ban guns so you're not gonna hear much bitching about this.
What is funny though is the fact that literally nobody gets killed by braced AR/AK pistols. I would bet all my guns that less than 10 gun murders last year were braced pistols.
The dumbass gangsters running around killing each other dont put them on their "dracos". In fact they will take shoulder stocks off of legal rifles to make them shorter.
Just another example of DC not giving a fuck about actual violence but getting mad that law abiding citizens found away around their stupid ass $200 tax.
Didn't the Boulder supermarket killer use a braced pistol? That was only like a few months ago.
Well the sba3 brace or the magpul brace are pretty effective, but if you're gonna do something illegal you're probably just gonna throw a regular stock on it. I doubt your average crip or mass shooter cares that their gun is illegal.
Lol elmer fudd over here bootlicking the atf