Comment on FR Doc # 2026-08930

RIN 1140–AA98 I am writing in strong support of ATF's proposed rule to remove the factoring criteria for firearms with attached stabilizing braces added by the 2023 final rule. The 2023 rule was a regulatory failure by any objective measure. Multiple federal courts found it arbitrary and capricious, it was enjoined in jurisdictions across the country within weeks of taking effect, and it was ultimately vacated in its entirety. ATF itself acknowledges it has never meaningfully enforced it. Removing language that has been struck down by the courts and that ATF cannot enforce is simply good housekeeping — it restores clarity to the regulatory text and ends the legal limbo that manufacturers and consumers have been living in. Beyond the legal issues, the 2023 rule imposed real costs on ordinary gun owners for no demonstrated public safety benefit. Requiring fingerprints, photographs, and lengthy NFA application paperwork to purchase a pistol with an attached brace — a process ATF estimates costs individuals approximately $165 per firearm and nearly 4 hours of their time — was an enormous burden on law-abiding Americans. At an estimated 875,000 such firearms per year, ATF projects this rule will save the public approximately $144 million annually. I urge ATF to finalize this rule as proposed. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.