40 million pistol braces, with a $200 registration fee after the fact is a lot of money.
They say you have 120 days to register your firearms. This gives them a chunk of morons who will register their guns so they can go after them and be made examples of.
So unless they already know who has pistol braces, or SBR capable rifles in their possession, this will be nothing. This also came right after the Bump Stock Ban lost in court. Which told me that gimmicks for guns, is a fast way of the BATFE to commit overreach at the drop of a hat.
I am of the mind that this is driven not by public safety, but to make it so fucking expensive that only the rich can afford to be armed. Because once they get the taste of how much tax money they can generate, they will tax magazines, and ammunition next.
This agency needs to be dismantled, the entirety of that and the FBI.
I knew this old boy in Chicago who was in WW II. He had this Japanese 7mm rifle as a war souvenir.
When Chicago started their gun registration scheme, he took a piece of onion paper and placed it over the Jap Serial Number and made an impression of the Jap numbers
Then he cut out the paper and Scotch taped it to the gun registration form.
I guess it was his way of thumbing his nose at their little scheme.
And in case you didn't know, when you register your property with the government, you give them an interest in that property. Now they can use that interest as collateral on their debt. And believe me when I tell you this is exactly what they are doing.
Same thing goes for the bicycle registration scheme they dreamed up supposedly in case your bicycle was stolen and recovered it could be returned to its owner. But I never knew anyone in Chicago that got their bike back after it had been stolen. ;)