But you don’t know this. The guidance is that the guidelines will be objective, but as it reads they are very much subjective. There is no objective way for someone who assembles a pistol to know if the ATF will decide that it is an SBR. I suppose we could submit 1,000,000 letters asking for guidance, say for 1 pistol send in 10 or 20 requests, each based on a different possible optic and/or it being a 10 vs 20 vs 30 round magazine, etc.
We should all get together and shoot our braced pistols as braced pistols, lots of pics with them strapped to our arms and held out with one or two hands having fun. Do this once or twice a year. Seems like it’d be a good enough show of intent to act as a defense for such a flimsy rule.
Not yet discussed, but if a pistol can become a rifle based on capacity or weight or optic, could a rifle with a barrel longer than 16” be considered an SBR based on it’s design? Need to look at where required barrel length is established, hopefully it’s in the act. Anyway, thinking bullpups.