I dont think so. Did the box say angled? Or vertical?
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Foregrip on an AR Pistol. New technicality?
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If you choose modify any factory parts you're stepping into gray territory...
*excuse me, THEIR territory
It says vertical....
The rules have definitely 'evolved' over the last 30 years of AR pistols. For example the early ones couldn't have any kind of hand guards, although a heat shield or shroud was OK. Olympic Arms also built their first gun as a piston gun because they were afraid the buffer would be considered a 'stock'.
The thing to remember about all this was SBRs and SBSs were only included in the NFA because that Act was originally meant to ban handguns. They added the rules around SBS/SBR to prevent people from cutting down long guns into handguns.
That was their only intent, but when they pulled out handguns from the acts and added machine guns and suppressors instead, they left all the nonsense about SBR/SBS in place through sheer inertia, never really thinking how any of this would apply in a world where much more concealable handguns were still legal.
The thing to remember about all this was SBRs and SBSs were only included in the NFA because that Act was originally meant to ban handguns. They added the rules around SBS/SBR to prevent people from cutting down long guns into handguns.
That was their only intent, but when they pulled out handguns from the acts and added machine guns and suppressors instead, they left all the nonsense about SBR/SBS in place through sheer inertia, never really thinking how any of this would apply in a world where much more concealable handguns were still legal.
Then there ya go.
Yup now I'm sad haha
I was also. I wanted to put one of those stubby verts on that glock set up, but the guy at truprep knew exactly what I was asking, and he knew the answer. It made sense to me in a way when he told me. What the box says is what it is.
Using your other hand, per se, is pretty much irrelevant. The test is whether the part is intended to used with the other hand. YouTube is full of videos showing people using "braces" for shoulder stocks, but because the brace is not intended to be used in that manner, they slide by.
Why you have to send the whole gun in to get an opinion letter now.
As per the latest ATF decision (that we know of).
Previous interpretation was brace couldn't touch shoulder.
No reason they can't reverse themselves again.
Law means what they decide it means, at the time they decide.
Were it (almost) any other subject, Congress, their parent agency(s), or the courts would define limits on their 'interpretaion' scope. But no one wants to touch gun laws any more than they have to.
Just get a hand stop, there are plenty of excellent ones on the market. I like the Timber Creek.
