Ok ladies and gentlemen if you really want to know what I think of this topic here it is.
Here is my take on the whole pistol brace topic. Please bear with me and don't take anything away from this post as a rant at all or interpret this post as anti assault weapons anything. I just don't have any use for them personally since I'm retired from the Army. If it is something that floats your boat then sail on. Besides you asked for opinions here.
The term assault rifle is one that is used too often nowadays loosely without any thought or knowledge to its origin. The term pistol brace falls neatly into the same category of terms for firearms related today as they have been around for centuries now in one form or another. The problem that we are encountering now is that mass media is involved along with for lack of a better term udder piss poor marketing coupled with timing of all of the past 100 years of mass shootings or it would seem that way.
The term pistol brace has been coined to market a part that in all truth is nothing more than a stock that is placed on a hand gun. So it would seem that it is something new to the masses who don't know any better to buy with a hurried fervor. When in-fact they have been around for a lot longer than any of us have been alive. So old is new and the latest fashion. Again I have no use for them. If thats what floats your boat sail on.
The biggest problem is when someone wants use a stock aka pistol brace with an SBR short barreled rifle that is where the water gets murky and you have topics such as this one. The ATF and federal government would not step in or have any justification to do so if one individual or group of individuals hadn't done something astronomically stupid with them in the first place. Yet again I have no use for an SBR either as defined by a rifle that has a barrel length shorter than 16 inches. If thats what floats your boat then sail on.
So here we are presented with the current conundrum of the day. What are those to who want to posses such things to do? The short answer is pay for the tax stamp and register your property or don't. The choice is yours. If you do decide to register one or many and later on sell it or them send me the used tax stamp or stamps I collect the damn things.
Besides law enforcement and the federal government have bigger fish to fry right now. This is something that I'm just not overly concerned about.
Okay I did something I normally don't do but given the fact I plan on applying for an FFL soon I need to be aware of such rulings and laws. I visited the ATF's web sight and typed in pistol brace to the sites search engine and sure enough there is a mind numbing # of pages that cover the topic and is very clear as to what defines a pistol brace even going as far as to have color photos and youtube videos. Additionally a lengthy list of firearms past and present including antiques that fall into the category of using a pistol brace. It encompasses pistols, rifles and shotguns.
The moral of the story is if you want to own one of these items it would behove you to visit the ATF's website yourself before buying or selling one. If thats what floats your boat then sail on.