I have noticed that a good few, honestly more than I would expect on this board seem eager to give the braces the go by, and dismiss them altogether as a tacticool, gimmicky, gun bro thing or criticize it for toeing the line too close into "NFA" territory, but is there a particular reason aside from that that people are so dismissive of them.
I could have really cared less about them personally, I am perfectly content with a 16" carbine but would you guys have the same attitude toward 14.5" barrels with pinned and welded md's. I mean what if that was the next thing? "gun owners exploiting a loophole allowing them to shorten their guns OAL by 1" by way of welding on a muzzle device" It all seems just as arbitrary and pointless to pursue.
I became interested in them because my wife is very small statured and my carbines are too unwieldy for her, we have tried to overcome it. My solution was to buy a 10.5, pistol brace and kept the weight down to a minimum by only installing irons and now she has a formidable weapon that she can maneuver without excessive strain prohibiting her from using it. It was a handy solution honestly. Are our lives over without it? No. But it's annoying the metrics we have grown accustomed to, people seem to have no sense of scale. A handful of people use their guns inappropriately and that's the tipping point? Really. 80 million people need to be castrated because of these isolated incidents?