Recent 2A news regarding AR pistols

[Belsnickel]

(10-07-2020, 12:05 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I thought about making a thread on this, but concluded it would be dismissed by some as more 2A nonsense from SSF.  As you say the whole initial classification.  However, I think your description is a bit off.  An SBR can have a stock, and most often do.  It's the AR "pistol" that has the stabilizing brace that's ostensibly meant to be strapped to your forearm.  The ridiculous part of this is that the minute to you put this "stabilizing brace" to your shoulder you've just committed a felony as your firearm is considered a pistol and not an SBR because you didn't get your tax stamp to be allowed to have an SBR.

I may not have been very clear in my explanation, but this is what I was trying to say. Essentially, this weapon with a stock is an SBR and with a "stabilizing brace" it is a "pistol." One rquires a stamp, the other doesn't.

(10-07-2020, 12:05 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: All that being said, you've hit on something that has annoyed the piss out of the firearms industry, and gun owners, for years about the ATF, they're capricious and mercurial in terms of firearms classifications.  This feature makes this firearm a "destructive device" and therefore verboten.  This feature does not change your firearm to an AOW (any other weapon).  Your shotgun cannot have a barrel shorter than 18.5" or you go bye bye.  Don't even get me started on effing 922r import restrictions.  Quite honestly, all this classification nonsense needs to go.  It's intensely confusing and subject to change at will.  It can turn law abiding citizens into felons overnight through zero fault of their own, all while real criminals are getting fewer and fewer punitive consequences.

Solution, let law abiding citizens have what they want.  If you feel a certain class of firearms needs to be restricted, pass a law regarding that class of firearms and see if it passes Constitutional scrutiny.  Otherwise leave it alone.  The whole tax stamp concept is outdated as hell as well, but that's a different conversation.

I don't own any firearms that the ATF gets in a tizzy about, but even I find it all annoying. I agree with you about the tax stamp. We need to get rid of it because all it does it increase the price of these items and make it less attainable for the common people. Same thing for machine guns. But that's a whole long discussion about how gun control laws help perpetuate class inequity and oppress the prole...I mean citizenry.