The AR pistol really caught on with the advent of the pistol brace.
They still have a lot of validity even without the brace for a compact package though if you learn how to run them.
There doesn’t seem to be much interest in them though…
Why is that?
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I have always ran my pistol braceless
Never saw the need to have one.
Braced pistol is the transgender of firearms, it doesn’t know what it wants to be.
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Not to dissuade discussion here, but there is a related 14 page thread on Pistol Forum if you haven’t seen it.
No brace, not even a buffer tube. No sights either, was Clark aiming by clairvoyance or just pray-and-spray? LOL
Stop personifying an object, its wierd.
Ive run them tube only and it beats a g19 with greater effect.
Here’s some interesting data from Greg Ellifritz
It was an Olympic OA-93, with a unique design that didn’t require a buffer tube. They did, however, require sights…
Yeah, I know 
--Olympic used to be big around here in the NW before they just up and disappeared taking a lot of other companies’ interesting tooling (like the Safari Arms Portsider 1911) with 'em. Just attempting to inject some levity at Hollyweird’s expense.
Special forces dudes don’t need sights.
Because a bunch of folks are cheap asses, don’t want to pony up 200 for a stamp, muh rights, “don’t want the man to know I have it”
I get it, I would rather walk in, pay for an item, pay 200 at the point of sale (better yet-nothing) and walk out. But until that happens, pay the stamp, do it right verses a walk around and enjoy the shorty.
Truth hurts, yes, nobody wants the pistol now.
Many people aren’t will to “relearn” shouldering a weapon with a broomstick vs a buttstock. Me, for example. No reason why I should go that route and of course the contact area is miniscule compared to a butt. My choice and my personal preference as it always will be.
Pistol vs rifle concerns are valid. $200 is shit, you should have just left that point out. Registration, pistol vs rifle laws in different states, these are valid concerns.
Sorry to get in the way of your pro sbr/atf/feds/registration post.
Years ago I had both a draco pistol and a keltec plr16, both long sold now. No buffer tubes, just fun toys. I got fairly decent with both by pushing the weapon out against the sling.
I’m not pro anything in regards to the whole class III system. You forgot the part that mentions, “would rather walk in and pay the fee or nothing at all and simply buy it”-you let your dislike of the system get in the way of the point I made. I still stand on the fact that people are cheap asses and it is a simple fact-if it wasn’t for the braces, a whole bunch of folks would not have purchased the things to begin with.
100% total agreement.
All perfectly reasonable reasons to get a pistol vs SBR.
IMO, pistols with braces sold well not because they were $200 cheaper (tax stamp) than an SBR, but rather because of no paperwork hassle or long wait. That’s always been the main obstacle for purchasing NFA, not the $200.
Braces were the easy button. No permission, no bureaucratic process, no wait, no engraving, no class 3 BS if you want to sell, no permission to travel, etc.
Hell, I’d pay $200 for a brace just to be able to skip all that BS.
But here we are…
Back to the intent of the OP, a 10.5/11.5 braceless pistol is still quite capable. But for some reason there’s not much interest.
People care more about looking like an “operator” than what actually works?
