TZP Column: Pistol Brace Final Rule

I had to rush this to get it published before sundown. A bit of a trick with 293 pages of bureaucratic BS to wade through.

The ATF managed to make their rule even more arbitrary, capricious, and incoherent than their original proposed rule.

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PISTOL BRACE FINAL RULE: 293 PAGES OF ARBITRARY CAPRICIOUSNESS
The ATF’s final rule on whether pistol braces magically turn pistols into short-barreled rifles was signed on January 13, 2023.

Most of the document is rationalization of why they believe they can get away with this, and explaining away NPRM commenters’ objections. They did agree that the proposed form 4999 — which used an arbitrary point system to differentiate between pistols and short-barrel rifles — was flawed. They decided that was sufficiently flawed that they abandoned it.
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