A man using a stabilizing brace on an AR-15 pistol killed 10 people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Another used one at a school in Nashville, Tennessee that killed three 9-year-old ...

A pistol brace, also known as stabilizing brace or ... measure that would reclassify many pistols using such devices as short-barreled rifles—a change that would require owners to ask for ...

The Justice Department announced Friday that it has submitted final rules that would apply more security checks on gun owners and sellers who use unregulated stabilizing braces to effectively ...

As of midnight, some AR pistols must now be registered as short-barreled rifles. It is now a federal crime to own certain guns with a rear attachment known as a stabilizing brace unless they are ...

The ATF's new regulations say these braces convert pistols into short-barreled rifles, which are much more heavily regulated by the National Firearms Act. "So any pistol now with a brace on it, ...

A stabilizing brace is an attachment to a pistol that functionally turns it into a short-barreled rifle, similar to a sawed-off shotgun. Such weapons are considered particularly deadly as they ...

This AR-style pistol with stabilizing brace is now considered by ATF to be a short-barreled rifle that must be registered.(ATF) Millions of Americans own a firearm known as an AR-style pistol ...

Typically, short barreled rifles are regulated under the ... Many have barrels about half the length of a traditional rifle, ...

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 ...

The pistol stabilizing brace was introduced circa 2012 by a ... meaning it could legally transform a pistol into a heavily ...

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 ...