The recent Ruling by the  Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms as it relates to stabilizing braces should worry everyone in the USA.  These add on devices are in common use on approximately 40,000,000 Firearms.  These would definitely be considered to be in common use with this level of ownership.  Additionally this action can make instant criminals out of millions of otherwise law abiding United States Citizens. Effectively this bypasses the legislature and takes away one of the steps in due process (who makes the laws). 

This overreach action was only a month after the BATF had said braces were legal only a month before and after allowing braces on any number of pistols prior to and after the NFA was passed in 1934. Additionally now any pistol with a stabilizing brace is labeled as a short barreled rifle. This includes revolvers which have had available brace type devices going back at least until the mid 19th Century.

This ruling will affect many individuals with upper mobility and strength issues who rely on being able to have an affordable way to shoot pistols.  Additionally, the requirement to purchase a tax stamp for NFA items was a control that has steeped in socioeconomic and racial disparity from it's beginning in 1934. 

Lastly if a government agency is simply allowed to change a rule that has the ability to make persons who violate the rule criminals with possible sentences of 10 years in prison this time, where will it stop.  Laws are not meant to be set by administrations.  Laws are meant to be set by the legislature per the US Constitution.  US Citizens need to stand up this abuse of power and set the standard that only legislature can enact rules that make a criminal (also knowns as laws). 

One way we can do this is to get the legislature to take action.  The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to negate a administrative rule or policy on the basis that it in effect creates a new law or punishment to a law. 

Join me in petitioning  the House of Representatives and the Senate to do just that.  The American peoples deserve better government than a government that  on a whim changes the legality of a longstanding ability to own an item and turning it into a punishable offense without legislative authority to do so. Bypassing