I was daydreaming on a boring conference call today and started wondering if/when the SHORT Act and HPA both pass, and as of June, 2025 it looks more likely than ever, what products will come next? I assume there will be a transition period of everything being sold out, but after that.
Shotguns: A ton of replacement shorter barrels for the 500/590/870’s of the country. I’d love to have about a 12-14" barrel home defense shotgun. Basically a Shockwave size, but with a stock. That’s about all I can come up with.
Rifles: I’d hate to be SB Tactical here, because the pistol brace market is going to vanish. Other than getting rid of the brace/stock foolishness, I don’t know the MSR market would change all that much. Hunting rifles in more niche calibers like 8.6 Blackout might see a slight bump, but with braces most of that itch has been scratched already.
Handguns: This is where I think it gets interesting. The number of new PDW-sized guns would explode. All the PCC’s with braces or nothing on the back will be able to have a proper stock. More stocked pistols without the expense of things like the Flux products. Vertical foregrips for pistols will be allowed again, too.
Silencers: Will become ubiquitous and cheaper options will exist, as they exist everywhere else in the world. Buying a cheap aluminum silencer is dumb when there is a $200 tax that took forever to approve, but if you can run down to the local gun store and pick up a new one any time, I think that becomes a lot more likely.
Nope, still has a role for CCW. Take two identical 10.3-12.5" AR’s, one built with a brace the other a stock. In WA the braced one IF you had it before our ban is legal as a CCW pistol IF you can conceal it, the stocked one is NOT carry legal and you can’t even have a mag in it in the car. The Fischgestapo are paranoid about poachers or somesuch…
So, for some of us those shorties will continue to rock blades and braces.
I didn’t know that distinction was a thing in WA. Sadly it is not surprising to hear that confusing, nonsensical laws will continue to exist at the state level. Hopefully you’ll be able to get some hot deals on lightly-used braces. When I said the market for braces would vanish, I wasn’t implying it would go completely to zero, but I expect it will be seriously diminished.
I didn’t mean to go too far down the legal discussion, but rather what new products might come onto the market.
New stuff, I’d expect to see “correct length” semi-only milspec clones become more common. Price would probably come down on 10.5" Thompsons, and more widespread 14.5" M4s - and maybe further growth in the 12.5" and 13.7" sectors. Get rid of can restrictions and XM177s might see a surge.
I’ll probably be calling John Thomas at Retro Arms Works and asking him to take my shim-pin-n-weld M4 down to an unshimmed and unpinned 14.5, and having him lop off 0.3" from the barrel and grenade sleeve to make C.'s BCM C8A3 “correct length” and easier to mount bayonet when she wants to play with Sharp Pokey Things. (Seriously, when your gal thinks Bayonet Drill is fun, you know you have a keeper… or that it’s too late to run away. LOL)
well if these are passed in the bill all thats left for the nfa are what Machineguns, and explosives?
a free state like SC would mean we’re able to have stocks on what were ar pistols and shotguns too. so things will be glorious to have our rights restored. who’d of thought that we’d of lived to see this.. i can only pray we gain our rights back.. if we dont do it now, itll never get done i fear.
call and support them to your senators and congressmen.. its the only way to ensure it has a chance at being signed in by trump.
I think the only things left on the NFA would be machine guns and destructive devices. SBR, SBS, AOW, and silencers all get removed. MG’s and DD’s being removed were probably just a bridge too far, unfortunately. They say politics is the art of the possible, so hopefully we’ll all get to take the win.
It would be fun and stupid waste of $200 to pay the tax stamp for a DD. Get the stamp, put it inside an empty bottle, put a rag on top. If I filled it up it would destroy the paperwork, but those things are single use items anyway. Make for a fun conversation piece to have a fully legal Molotov.
If I recall, for things like Molotovs and hand grenades the serial number has to be engraved on the device itself and if you set it off you have to notify the ATF in writing within a certain time frame so that they can remove that serial number from the registry.
We have to be realistic; it’s not going to pass. Oh, we can dream, we can hope, we can pray, but our government does NOT pass logical firearm laws. Never has, never will.