The amnesty will apparently only cover arm-brace-equipped pistols that you already have in your possession when the amnesty begins - no other SBRs.
This is requiring the creation of a new version of the ATF Form 1.
In addition to the usual fingerprinting nonsense, they now want a photo of the gun attached to the registration forms, for their future reference.
The ATF is planning this registration period without a $200 tax stamp payment, as a legal CYA measure, so that they cannot be accused of making an uncompensated “taking.”.
(Can you spell “arbitrary and capricious” boys and girls?)įrom all that I’ve read, and based on a conversation with a knowledgeable firearms attorney, I can fairly safely surmise: ( Without compensation.) Arm braces were formerly blessed by the ATF as perfectly legal, but they later changed their minds, and they are soon to be declared felonious contraband. Compare that to the just 300,000 to 400,000 bumpfire stocks that were ordered to be turned in or destroyed, during the Trump administration. There are somewhere between 3 and 5 million arm-braced pistols in circulation in the United States. The following is a more detailed and updated version of the information that I provided that client: I recently had a consulting client ask me about the recent inadvertent “pre-announcement” of an ATF amnesty registration of arm-brace-equipped pistols.