Federal Court Rules on Biden’s Pistol Brace Crackdown: ‘Huge Win for Peaceable Gun Owners’
A federal appeals court ruled this week that a Biden administration regulation cracking down on stabilizing braces for firearms is likely illegal and sent the case back to a judge for review.
Stabilizing braces, also known as pistol braces, “[provide] surface area that allows the weapon to be fired from the shoulder,” according to the website of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In January, the agency targeted guns equipped with the braces, reclassifying such firearms as rifles and thus imposing harsher restrictions on their ownership.
Americans who own pistol braces were given several options: register their weapon, modify or destroy the weapon, permanently remove and dispose of the brace,
