Email from Sig, Concerning the Brace

[george burns]

BATFE REAFFIRMS PISTOL BRACE LEGAL TO OWN, INSTALL AND USE
Newington, N. H. (February 20, 2015) – SIG SAUER, Inc. has issued the following statement relative to the January 2015 open opinion letter issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regarding the SB15 and SBX Pistol Stabilizing Braces.

BATFE Technical Branch issued an open opinion letter dated January 16, 2015 regarding the Pistol Stabilizing Brace (SB15 and SBX) which is marketed by SIG SAUER®. Contrary to several statements subsequently made in social media, this opinion letter did not make or otherwise declare that the SB15 product is illegal. The BATFE letter stated that the SB15 is a product “which is legal to own, legal to purchase and legal to install on a pistol.” SIG SAUER believes that the PSB enhances the shooter’s experience and offers the products as an accessory and pre-installed on a number of pistols. In all of its opinions, BATFE has consistently stated that a pistol with a stabilizing brace attached remains a pistol under the Gun Control Act when used as designed.

 

[MAKster]

This letter from SIG is just meaningless spin.

"In all of its opinions, BATFE has consistently stated that a pistol with a stabilizing brace attached remains a pistol under the Gun Control Act when used as designed."

Since SIG has repeatedly said it was designed to be strapped to your forearm all this letter does is reaffirm that it cannot be shouldered and remain a pistol.

 

[Thermactor]

A tax stamp isn't much more expensive.

 

[Darkbob]

Millions of us live in states where the tax stamp is not an option. Too bad that the brace isn't an option anymore either.

 

[Ibmikey]

Unfortunately we must still abide by antiquated laws designed to bring revenue to a Gov dept, an orgization that manuplitates the rules to meet it's own political ends.

 

[Tirod]

The NFA had little to do with bringing in actual revenue when enacted. The stamp fees were so high the majority of working people in America simply couldn't afford one.

It's a cultural roadblock to keep the common man from owning weapons the upper classes fear, then and now. What has happened is the fee was never raised, and with advancing inflation we can afford it now. $200 is 10-15 magazines for an AR, about one combat loadout. $200 THEN was about 6 weeks wages.

WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT IN THE NEAR FUTURE: The ATF doing an internal study which shows they need the fee to be raised to it's inflated value. About $2000.

Who's in for a $2000 fee? Didn't think so. If ANY fee seems reasonable, then it means accepting their logic why. Those who say "Just get a stamp" are really saying "You just need to accept your place as a subject under the control of others."

It's a form of discrimination same as a poll tax. Only the elites were able to afford it then and that is exactly where most politicians and police chiefs would like to see it now. The people who get into elected positions develop a new mindset because they exercise power, and they don't want the common man to have any.

As far as they are concerned we'd be better off without the 2A. What few improvements in our Rights don't come from Congress, they come from state legislatures and lawsuits. The representatives who live in their communities and still interact with us as citizens protect our rights, those who move to DC eventually throw us under the bus nearly every time.

NFA
GCA 68
AWB

Think about it. We get more traction at the state level than national. States have more reciprocity with each other, none exists at the national level. States get CCW passed, and now states are seeing the silliness of it and junking the system to be Open Carry and no permit at all - in direct respect for our Rights.

National? Still trying to clamp down and prevent it. ATF? Tools of the ruling class. It's not about revenue, it's about control.

 

[HexHead]

I'd gladly trade a poll tax for no tax stamp.

 

[Tirod]

A poll tax was used to keep certain Americans from voting in the South.

If you can't get the right people into office, then you can't keep your rights. Taxes are just a form of control over us, same as when King George was milking the British citizens living here. They weren't paying the Tea Tax back at home.

Pretty much why some states are now looking at abolishing CCW permits - it's a tax to keep the poor from carrying firearms. And the poor are usually the most disaffected in society.

So, transfer tax, poll tax, horsepower tax, what's next? Ammo tax? Let's start at $1 a round. Some have proposed worse.

Taxes are simply one class of citizen putting their thumb on another class. Only those who are good enough and making the money can pay it. If you can't, you must not be good enough.

If you can't see the bias in that, others have and that's why poll taxes were found unconstitutional.

Hopefully that decision has some meaning.