Good point, but still, they don’t write laws. Their letters are not laws. They are nothing more than an opinionated interpretation of the law. Once people buy into their opinions they get trapped into believing there are laws that don’t existin there open letter where the atf clearly said you can sholder a brace...
With respect to stabilizing braces, ATF has concluded that attaching the brace to a handgun as a forearm brace does not ‘make’ a short-barreled firearm because … The letter continues: *Therefore, an NFA firearm has not necessarily been made when the device is not re-configured for use as a shoulder stock — even if the attached firearm happens to be fired from the shoulder.*
Another way to look at this debacle is to realize that the ATF is simply reversing its opinion, yet again, on whether or not they think it’s ok to fire a pistol from the shoulder, which is utterly ridiculous. They know it’s ridiculous and it’s possible someone there was embarrassed by the first letter that decided firing a pistol from the shoulder miraculously turned it into a SBR (poof!) and now they’re trying again, hoping that nobody will bring attention to how ridiculous the notion is.
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