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Open for Comment: Removing Factoring Criteria for Firearms With Attached “Stabilizing Braces”

By 5r4f…r25n May 6, 2026
Justice Department — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ("ATF") is proposing to amend Department of Justice ("Department") regulations on firearms with attached stabilizing braces. Courts have found that ATF's revisions in the 2023 final rule on the same topic violated the Administrative Procedure Act. Several courts have enjoined, stayed, or vacated the final rule, which has rarely been in effect. ATF is therefore proposing to remove from the regulatory definitions of "rifle" the two paragraphs added by the 2023 final rule that defined the term "designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder." (90 days remaining)

Open for Comment: Removing Factoring Criteria for Firearms With Attached “Stabilizing Braces”

Justice Department — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) is proposing to amend Department of Justice (“Department”) regulations on firearms with attached stabilizing braces. Courts have found that ATF’s revisions in the 2023 final rule on the same topic violated the Administrative Procedure Act. Several courts have enjoined, stayed, or vacated the final rule, which has rarely been in effect. ATF is therefore proposing to remove from the regulatory definitions of “rifle” the two paragraphs added by the 2023 final rule that defined the term “designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder.” (90 days remaining)

Type: comment-period | Source: federalregister.gov

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