Comment on FR Doc # 2026-08930

The ATF determined that pistol braces were not stocks and their inclusion on a large form pistol does not make it an SBR. Since the ATF cannot or will not specify what characteristics make a stock and which differentiate it from a brace, whether it is surface area, particular design features such as angle, material, padding, dimensions, etc., then any pistol brace therefore does not make a pistol an SBR. The features of the pistol are inconsequential, whether it is completely bare or equipped in a similar manner as an SBR, because the user's personal choices of how to equip the pistol have no bearing on the brace itself. Pistols with a buffer tube and no brace or stock can still be shouldered, and even if one intends to always use the pistol without a brace or stock with the buffer tube shouldered because it's simply easier to aim and control, there is no debate that this is legal because without a stock, or brace, it's just an uncomfortable pistol. Trying to thread some legal needle on how the brace is used or how the user equips their pistol is irrelevant - a pistol brace either does or does not make a pistol an SBR, no different than if one uses a pipe wrench as a hammer, the wrench is not now a hammer. Please stop intentionally trying to create criminals out of law abiding citizens.