4 Pistol Stabilizing Braces for Every American Shooter

By Will Dabbs, MD

The Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1934 regulated automatic weapons, sound suppressors and destructive devices like hand grenades and mortars. Before that time, anybody with a little money could walk out of their local hardware store with a fully automatic Thompson submachine gun or Browning Automatic Rifle without flashing so much as a driver’s license. But, thanks to the Great Depression, few people had driver’s licenses or much money.

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The original language of the GCA lumped handguns in with automatic weapons, intending to subject them all to the same $200 transfer tax—a king’s ransom in the day.

The barrel length limitations on rifles and shotguns were codified in the expectation that folks would likely just shorten their long guns if handguns were restricted. Handguns were ultimately negotiated out of the final bill, but no one thought to remove the barrel length restrictions. As a result, we now have to lay down $200 and endure a lot of paperwork to possess a rifle with a barrel shorter than 16 inches.

Then, in 2012, Alex Bosco invented the pistol stabilizing brace (PSB), and the whole planet shifted just a …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life