Federal Court Strikes Down ATF Pistol Brace Rule.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from enforcing its new rule against gun owners and Second Amendment groups who filed a lawsuit challenging the regulation. The stabilizing brace rule was introduced as part of the comprehensive gun crime strategy Biden announced in April 2021 in response to the massacre at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where a gunman used a firearm with a stabilizing brace to kill 10 people. Gun rights groups have argued in court that the stabilizing brace rule violates the Constitution by requiring millions of gun owners to register their weapons.