In just 32 seconds, a gunman in Dayton, Ohio killed 9 people and injured 27 others using one of these brace-modified pistols.1 Stabilizing braces act as a legal loophole that functionally transforms pistols into easily concealable short-barreled rifles – but without the federal regulations on these especially dangerous firearms.
Mass shooters have knowingly taken advantage of this loophole. Firearms with attached stabilizing braces were also used by a gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.2 Most recently, a brace-modified firearm was used in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, which took the lives of 3 children and 3 adults.3
The existing regulations, set by the Biden administration, would require anyone who has a gun with an arm-stabilizing brace to register the weapon and pay a fee – a standard and long-standing process under the National Firearms Act. This gun lobby-backed resolution would overturn these regulations, making it easier for shooters to exploit this loophole and access deadly, concealable weapons.
