When
Sig Sauer originally started producing the Sig Brace they insisted that
reviewers, especially those on YouTube, not shoulder the brace so that the ATF
wouldn’t get their feelings hurt. The brace was designed with a specific
purpose at its inception in that it would assist those unable to shoulder an
AR-15 by allowing them to put the brace on a pistol length platform and wrap the
brace around their forearm allowing for one handed operation. Since the ATF was
fine with people shouldering an unaltered pistol, the brace was frequently
being employed as a means to circumvent NFA requirements and making AR pistols
function similarly to the highly regulated short barrel rifle.
The
Sig Brace even came with (and probably still does) a letter from the ATF securing
the legality of the brace and the multiple purposes that it serves. Everything
was fine for a while but as soon as the first video was posted of the brace
being shouldered, the letters to the ATF came pouring in. The astounding thing
is that these correspondences were not from the registration and regulation
happy crowd, they were from law abiding gun owners basically asking the federal
agency if they were really really sure that shouldering was okay.
Well
finally the ATF had enough and like most people in politics they decided to flip flop and declare that the shouldering of the brace was no longer allowed.
That’s right, we had a good thing going and we are the ones that screwed it all
up. So now we are going to have to wait and see if Sig Sauer decides to fight
the ruling and eventually we will find out if the ATF will reverse their
decision again.
But,
for the time being, here are four simple words for some of the gun owners out
there: “Shut The Heck Up!”
Of
course, there are many of us that see the Bureau of Always Totally Fudged more
as a waste of money rather than an effective means of regulation. After all,
who are they really regulating anyway? That’s right, it is the law abiding gun
owner (some obviously a little too overzealous in their caution) not the ones
that would use any of the NFA items in a nefarious way. The $200 tax stamp,
extra paper work, and additional background checks are only ensuring that they
know where all the legal firearms are and doing nothing to remove them from the
hands of criminals.
Heck, maybe the ones who need to be controlled are the hoplophobes who like to randomly tackle citizens legally carrying a firearm into a Florida Walmart. Those people are nuts… and fortunately now they’re going to jail. Who’s the
real criminal here?
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