The unprecedented scene saw lawmakers with gas masks huddling in the locked House and Senate chambers with aides while demonstrators pounded on the doors and roamed the halls of the Capitol unchallenged.
In the House chamber, plain-clothes officers with guns drawn barricaded the doors with furniture and pointed their weapons through broken windows at rioters trying to get inside. Officers told the trapped lawmakers to lay down on the floor until the danger had passed.
After several hours of clashes and lawlessness, national guard troops from the District, Virginia and Maryland were called in to restore order. District Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a citywide curfew from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday.
Leak Shows ATF to Publish “Factors for Classifying Guns with Stabilizing Braces”, IMG SIG SAUER Pistol Stabilizing Brace
U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- Documents leaked to several media outlets Wednesday show the Justice Department is moving to publish in the Federal Registry on Friday, December 18th, 2020 a document titled “Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with Stabilizing Braces” ( embedded below).
Note the document itself is not a ban on pistol braces but it does lay the groundwork for extensive restrictions on what firearms can have the Stabilizing Brace accessories in the typically convoluted and vague ATF fashion.
Not a Pistol Brace Ban…Yet
GOA and other pro-2A groups are suing the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- On Thursday, federal agents raided the headquarters of Polymer80, one of the largest manufacturers of homemade firearm accessories.
For years, Polymer80 has been producing “80% complete” lower receivers which the ATF determined to be incomplete and non-regulatable by the ATF as firearms. These receivers require holes to be drilled and surfaces filed before they become an actual, usable receiver, hence the term 80% receiver.
You might have heard an anti-gunner refer to a completed homemade firearm as a “ghost gun” before.