We recently asked for your help submitting public comments on the regulation of ghost guns—now we need your help regulating the sale of stabilizing pistol braces. These firearm accessories easily turn assault pistols into short-barreled assault rifles and have been used in recent mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and Boulder, Colorado.

It only takes a few minutes to make sure the ATF hears your voice. Here’s how:

Step 1: Use this link: [link removed]

Step 2: Write a comment showing your support for regulating pistol braces, or copy and paste the sample comment we’ve included below.

Step 3: Submit before the public comment deadline tomorrow (Wednesday, September 8).

Don’t let the gun lobby and its extremist adherents drown out the voices of the gun safety majority and decide the future of gun regulation in this country. Please take this opportunity to make your voice heard before tomorrow’s deadline.

Thank you,
Robyn

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Robyn Thomas
Executive Director
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence



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I support the Biden administration’s rule on “stabilizing braces” or “arm braces” and I urge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to finalize the rule as proposed so that firearms with attached “arm braces” designed to be fired from the shoulder are properly regulated as short-barreled rifles.

Short-barreled rifles are unusually dangerous because they can be easily concealed like a handgun, but have the firepower and accuracy of a rifle. Until recently, they have rarely been used in crime because of a federal law that requires them to be registered with ATF. However, the gun industry has now designed certain accessories to convert AR-15 or AK-47 style pistols into short-barreled rifles, and members of the public are using these accessories to get around the law.

We have already begun to see the horrific consequences when people create unregistered short-barreled rifles using AR-15–style pistols and arm braces. On August 4, 2019, a mass shooter killed nine people and injured 17 in Dayton, Ohio, using this kind of weapon, and on March 22, 2021, a gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, using another one. The easy availability of these weapons poses a serious public safety threat. ATF’s proposed rule would better regulate these weapons and is a step forward in addressing an increasingly important public safety problem. I wholly support this rule and urge its immediate adoption.
 


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