Steven Dettelbach said a 'zero tolerance' policy on gun shops is working and defended new rules on devices for short-barreled rifles.

On Jan. 13, Attorney General Merrick Garland signed ATF final rule 2021R-08F, “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces,’” amending ATF’s regulations to clarify ...

The Court threw the Pistol Brace Rule in the trash,” it said. The same court had earlier approved the ATF rule, but an appeals court overruled it.

President Biden announced Monday that he would veto a Republican measure in the House that seeks to restrict his administration's plans to regulate pistol braces.

Gun Control A Texas-Backed Lawsuit Argues That the ATF's Pistol Brace Rule Is Arbitrary and Unconstitutional Although the law did not change, regulators suddenly decided to criminalize ...

The ATF contemporaneously issued approximately sixty adjudications pursuant to the Final Rule that reclassified different configurations of firearms with stabilizing braces as NFA rifles.

May 31—On June 1, "pistol braces," or attached stabilizing braces, may be illegal unless registered if a national delay in implementing the rule is not approved. A battle is being fought on two ...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) originally approved pistol braces during the Obama administration.

Far-right U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a bill on Tuesday to abolish the ATF after the agency tightened regulations on pistol-stabilizing braces. The Florida Republican said the agency has ignored ...

When pistol braces started becoming popular with mainstream gun owners, the ATF initially decided not to classify guns with these accessories as short-barreled rifles.

The new ATF rule classifies pistol braces as short-barreled rifles subject to extra regulations under the National Firearms Act if they modify pistols to be fired from the shoulder.

Of course, the forearm brace thing was nonsense, but it was ATF-approved nonsense, at least for a long time. Federally licensed firearms dealers are a conservative and risk-averse bunch, and they have ...