Cody J. Wisniewski, Director of MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms, recently spoke to the Denver Gazette about comments he filed in response to a proposed federal rule change impacting millions of gun owners.
The Biden administration’s proposed rule on pistol braces is “incomprehensible” and shows “unelected bureaucrats in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives … seeking to amend federal law through a rule-making,” Wisniewski told the Gazette
If finalized, this ATF regulation would recategorize many pistols equipped with stabilizing braces as “short-barreled rifles”—subjecting owners to fines, felony convictions, and jail time for any misstep in compliance under the National Firearms Act.
Owned by an estimated 7 million Americans, stabilizing braces were originally introduced to help disabled shooters fire larger and heavier pistols. Despite similarities in some instances, they are not shoulder stocks, which attach to a firearm for the express purpose of firing from the shoulder.
The Center to Keep and Bear Arms filed its formal comments on September 8, objecting to the proposed rule’s lack of legal authority and punitive impact on peaceable Americans, along with its extremely vague criteria for reclassifying braced pistols.
