There’s been so much chatter lately about the Sig pistol brace, it makes me wonder.
What happens if the ATF changes its mind and rules that thing (or any other thing for that matter) is no longer legal?
Will the thousands of those that are already on the street become illegally acquired NFA items overnight?
IMHO it doesn’t do any good to speculate on theoreticals, but it won’t be the first time ATF has changed their minds about the legality of something after approving it.
What happened in the past to those folks who purchased items that were later reclassified?
To answer your question. No. Just remove the brace and its like any other pistol carbine.
Yes, just like the Akins Accelerator. So you either comply and re-configure to be legal, or risk the consequences.
Moved to the correct area.
What besides the Akins accelerator has been reversed?
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Street Sweeper, Open Bolt Semis, DIAS, BM-3000 and similar, to name a few.
Worst fun police ever.
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At least open bolt semi’s such as RPB MACs and KG9s got grandfathered.
At least 3 Appeals Courts have overturned the grandfathering.
So are you trying to tell me that preban PRB MACs and KG9s are unregistered NFA weapons? I see them being sold constantly.
Exactly how do they do that, and why?
All the more reason to remove some alphabets from the government soup…
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Wasn’t the Akins Accelerator reversed because the design was changed between ATF approval and production? Same with the Sig Brace where it was approved with the strap but if they’d been produced without it they would have changed their decision. They make decisions based on design
Isn’t that ironic: an actual court ruling on an arbitrary “court’s” (ATF) ruling!
We are polevaulting over mouseturds here…if they change the ruling, remove the brace and submit for sbr or keep as pistol…
What?
It depends on the particular wording of the ruling. Things don’t have to be grandfathered in, but they often are. Are the Sig arm braces serialized? That’d make it a lot easier to grandfather them in, but not having them serialized doesn’t necessarilly preclude grandfathering.
Anyone who’d buy a sig pistol brace is probably better off in prison anyway.
The courts determined the ATF did not have legal authority under NFA law to determine if something was a machine gun based on the date it was manufactured. So once a given firearm is determined to be a MG, all are MGs regardless of when made.
This is why when they determined Street Sweepers were DDs, they did not grandfather. All Street Sweepers were DDs and they offered a grace period to register them.