Sistema1927
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You are missing something very important in the section to which you refer. Here is the language:https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...with-attached-stabilizing-braces#open-comment
If you scroll way down and read under Section V, the ATF gives one option being to just remove the brace.
(1) Permanently remove or alter the “stabilizing brace” such that it cannot be reattached, thus converting the firearm back to its original pistol configuration (as long as it was originally configured without a stock and as a pistol) and thereby removing it from regulation as a “firearm” under the NFA. Exercising this option would mean the pistol would no longer be “equipped with” the stabilizing brace within the meaning of the proposed rule.
Look at the words within the parenthesis. "As long as it was originally configured without a stock and as a pistol." If it fails the scoring sheet, and if it came with that brace, it will be deemed to have come with a "stock" and as a rifle.
If not, then there would have been no reason for them to include: (3) Destroy the firearm. ATF will publish information regarding proper destruction on its website, www.atf.gov.