However the ATF winds up "clarifying" the issue with braces, if it is something in our favor, don't expect it to be permanent. As I understand it, right now, the braces are legal because the ATF does not define them as a stock. If they change their mind about that, then your "brace" becomes a stock, under the law, and your braced pistol becomes an unregistered SBR, by definition.
Before I lost interest in keeping track, I lived through three different ATF definitions of what was, and wasn't a stocked pistol requiring NFA registration, and those were before AR pistols and braces even existed.
There are many things I've come to expect from the ATF. Permanence in their definition of certain items isn't one of them.
