The U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday a new rule targeting pistol attachments known as 'stabilizing braces,' implementing a key move in the Biden administration's efforts to beef up gun control regulations.
Steven M. Dettelbach listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider judicial nominees and the nomination of Dettelbach to be the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
A stabilizing brace is an attachment to a pistol that functionally turns it into a short-barreled rifle, similar to a sawed-off shotgun. Such weapons are considered particularly deadly as they offer the power of a traditional rifle, but are much easier to conceal. The new rule clarifies that pistols modified by a stabilizing brace are subject to those additional requirements, department officials said.
Last year, President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced they were planning measures to tackle stabilizing braces as well as "ghost guns" - a type of firearm that is assembled by users and practically untraceable.
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