ATF hereby confirms that if used as designed—to assist shooters in stabilizing a handgun while
shooting with a single hand—the device is not considered a shoulder stock and therefore may be
attached to a handgun without making a NFA firearm. However, ATF has received numerous
inquiries regarding alternate uses for this device, including use as a shoulder stock. Because the
NFA defines both rifle and shotgun to include any “weapon designed or redesigned, made or
remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder,” any person who redesigns a stabilizing
brace for use as a shoulder stock makes a NFA firearm when attached to a pistol with a rifled
barrel under 16 inches in length or a handgun with a smooth bore under 18 inches in length.
DKMY04 wrote:Thanks guys, that helps a lot. I've read the DNR regulations over and over, but some of my buddies (probably don't know what they are talking about) keep saying you can't use .223. And thanks for clearing up the brace question. I couldn't find any regulations on that.
photogpat wrote:DKMY04 wrote:Thanks guys, that helps a lot. I've read the DNR regulations over and over, but some of my buddies (probably don't know what they are talking about) keep saying you can't use .223. And thanks for clearing up the brace question. I couldn't find any regulations on that.
Until the DNR changed the regs a few years ago - .223 was not a legal cartridge. Probably what your buddies were still thinking.
Of course .25ACP is also a legal cartridge now too - doesn't make it a good idea though...
Holland&Holland wrote: The .25 ACP really is only useful at about 200 yards out and beyond I find.
MJY65 wrote:Holland&Holland wrote: The .25 ACP really is only useful at about 200 yards out and beyond I find.
Don't sell the mighty .25 short. With modern bullets it is fully capable of dropping any animal in North America right in its tracks. Of course, this requires expert marksmanship like that displayed by my buddy's uncle's boss who shot three trophy bucks with his Beretta last year.
PHATSPEED7x wrote:Glad I found this thread. Has anyone successful taken a deer in MN with an ar15 pistol? Regardless of caliber?
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