MSR Pistol Designation In Doubt?

[LRRPF52]

I would like to understand what subtlety in all the other "legal braces" vs. the braces used on the Q LCC guns, makes the legal versions a pistol and Q's an NFA regulated SBR. This makes no sense to me unless ATF is going to attempt to reclassify all previously legal pistols as NFA regulated SBRs. If anyone has figured this out, I sure would like to hear an explanation.

Has nothing to do with the brace, and everything to do with ATF getting reeled-in by Treasury under this Administration and Congress.

Once ATF leadership was ordered to stop their BS, many of them were incensed that someone had the gaul to finally slap them down.

Boston field division thinks they are a law unto themselves like they’ve always been, so they decided to single out Q and attempt to bully them with this bogus cease and desist letter, which is a big FU to ATF leadership, the Treasury, and the members of Congress who originally contacted Treasury to ask them to get some clarification on all of this.

ATF doesn’t like to be nailed down to any identifiable set of rules, because it doesn’t allow them to play gotcha, especially with businesses.

They’ve been allowed to engage in these jack-booted gestapo-like tactics from the start of their vile existence, and they don’t like it when people with authority over them finally exercise that authority.

Congresses in the past have just let them do whatever they want really.