A bill removing short-barrel or "sawed-off" guns from the state's list of weapons that are banned without federal ...

Second Amendment advocacy groups on Thursday cheered their win on deregulating gun suppressors, calling it a first step in a ...

Richard Hayes (R-Denton), testified that he’s responding to federal attempts to classify a pistol with a stabilizing brace as a short-barreled weapon. “This act by the ATF criminalizes an ...

TEXAS – A bill that would remove short-barrel firearms from Texas’ list of prohibited weapons was debated Monday before the Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

A brace can be used against a forearm to ... In 2023, the ATF came out with a final rule stating braces can turn a pistol into a short-barrel firearm since the devices allow for firing from ...

The rule's second step assesses two criteria: how a brace is marketed and its ... have the burden to prove that the braced pistols are not short-barreled rifles, an impossible task because ATF ...

However, certain designs can transform a handgun into a short-barreled, shoulder-fired rifle. The appellants argued that, under the ATF’s new rule, 99 percent of pistols equipped with a stabilizing ...

The new rule defines a pistol with a stabilizing brace as a short-barreled rifle, thus increasing federal regulation and putting Americans at risk of fines, forfeiture, and felony conviction.

Typically, short barreled rifles are regulated under the ... Many have barrels about half the length of a traditional rifle, and the pistol brace stock is adjustable. The administration pushed ...

When announcing the pistol-brace rule, ATF director Steve Dettelbach said the reasoning behind it "is that short-barreled rifles have the greater capability of long guns, yet are easier to conceal ...