Anybody who knows me knows that I am a rabid supporter of the Second Amendment and believe in the literal definition of it - "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED." It is because of this that I believe ALL gun control laws of any kind to be unconstitutional because ALL of them infringe on our Second Amendment right in one way or another.
And next to the Demoncratic party in general, the next biggest group of clowns, foul-ups, misfits and morons that have the most dramatic and negative impact on our Second Amendment right is the ATF - the Division of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
First and foremost, I'm still wondering why there's an agency designed to "oversee" firearms at all. I can see why you'd need someone to oversee alcohol, tobacco, and most certainly explosives, but firearms? Nope, not when there's a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT that already does that.
But in any event, the ATF exists and in recent years (ever since the Demoncrats installed a clown in the White House) has been on a campaign to carry out the Demoncrat's wish of gun control, gun registration, and eventual confiscation of all privately owned firearms. And in the past month or so they've come up with a way to take another step towards this goal, that being the reclassification of the "stabilizing brace" used on AR15 pistols (like the one in the meme).
A short history (because it's a LONG story): when AR15 pistols became popular, firearms accessories manufacturers came out with a "stabilizing brace" which is an accessory that allows the pistol to be fired with one hand as it is designed and intended to be fired. ALL of the braces I've ever seen all resemble a stock, because that's the only way you can design the brace and have it be effective. To clear things up, here's how the brace is designed to be used:
So let's state the obvious first and get it out of the way - yes, the braces are capable of enabling you to fire the weapon from the shoulder, thus making it a "rifle" and not a "pistol." Did the manufacturers do this on purpose? I don't know, you'd have to ask them. But the bottom line is that yes, braces can be used as stocks to fire the weapon from the shoulder. Anyone who denies this - and I mean ANYONE - is a liar who knows the truth but won't admit it. (Is this a way around the ATF and their stupid rules on short barreled rifles? Sure it is.)
Also, when braces first hit the market the ATF looked at them extensively and evaluated them as to whether or not they were "stocks" or "stabilizing braces," and that's important because if they were found to be stocks then that would transform any pistol equipped with one into a "short barreled rifle." That means you have to have a tax stamp for it - and those will cost you $200 payable to the Feds and will result in your rifle being registered with the feds. The final decision was that they were NOT "stocks" and were therefore OK to use without transforming your pistol into an SBR.
But that was under President Trump, one of the most pro-Second Amendment presidents we've ever had. Now, under "Creepy Joe" Biden who is very anti-Second Amendment and has publicly said he's going to take our guns, the ATF has taken another look at this and guess what? NOW they've decided that they're not "stabilizing braces" after all but are in fact "stocks," and that any weapon so equipped is a "short barreled rifle" which needs to be registered and a tax stamp purchased for it.
IMHO this is pure bullshit. It's nothing but a scheme to get your weapons registered, and they want that so they'll know where to find them when they come to take them. Think I'm wrong? Okay, then why else would the ATF give you an AMNESTY PERIOD where you can register your newly-classified SBR with them WITHOUT PAYING FOR A TAX STAMP? Considering that there are several MILLION weapons out there today that will become SBRs very shortly, this is a considerable sum of money that the feds are turning down - and when have you EVER heard of the feds turning down tax money?
The ATF gives you five choices of what to do with your newly-classified pistol, and they are:
1) Destroy it. (NOT gonna happen!)
2) Turn it in to the ATF (Not only 'NO,' but 'FUCK NO')
3) Register it as an SBR and get your name on a Government confiscation list (See response above)
4) Remove the brace and destroy or alter the brace so it cannot be used on any weapon.
5) Change the upper receiver to one with a barrel length of greater than 16" which will make it a standard rifle and not an SBR.
To me, NONE of these "choices" are reasonable or practical. In the first place, ATF rules are NOT laws, and are therefor non-enforceable. Yes, the ATF can enforce the National Firearms Act because that's a LAW and not a rule, but they cannot legally enforce their rules - but they most certainly will try, I'm sure. In any event, I'm not going to do any of the five "choices" given to me by the ATF.
What I'm going to do instead is wait for a conservative Federal judge to issue an injunction preventing the ATF from enforcing this unconstitutional rule while the many lawsuits that are sure to be filed make their way through the legal process and the new rule eventually found to be unconstitutional and scrapped. And this, of course, will take YEARS, so I'm in no hurry to do anything.
Except go to the range. In the mean time the ATF and "Creepy Joe" Biden can both kiss my rebel ass.
Deo Vindice
IHC
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