Quote Originally Posted by TAZ View Post
How is that different from AAC offering an upper with a 51t brake on it and then offering a sleeve to put over the brake? In both the Sig and AAC case the sound level of the weapon system does not decrease until a sleeve is purchased and put over the muzzle device. Granted one sleeve is far more complex than the other, but nine the less without such a sleeve the sound of the gun is not reduced.

Silly; yes, but then so are these stupid, subjective rulings issued by the ATF.
Easy,

The 51T Brake needs more than just a "sleeve" to suppress rounds. A 51T is just a mount. By your comparison, a threaded barrel is part of a suppressor.

You can argue this all day, and in the end, I'm agreeing with you... these laws are silly, the NFA needs to be abolished, and cans, SBR's MG's need to be available like any other gun over the counter.

Looks like Sig is suspending the lawsuit so the ATF can have more time to "reconsider"


By agreement, approved by the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, Sig will “stay” it’s lawsuit against the ATF until Sept. 17. In the meantime, both sides agree, Sig will send the ATF a sample of its muzzle brake for review and the ATF will issue a ruling, its third, by Aug. 6.

Faced with the federal lawsuit, which also names U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder as a defendant, the U.S. Attorney’s office notified Sig that it would reconsider its two prior decisions that call Sig’s muzzle brake an item “intended only for use” when making a silencer. The ATF asked the federal court to give it time to “review the matter and issue a new decision,” according to court records.

Terms of an agreement, filed with the federal court, say that if the ATF’s decision is agreeable to Sig, the Newington firearms manufacturer “will have obtained the relive sought without further litigation,” If the ATF again rules that Sig’s product is a silencer component, the federal civil suit will proceed, according to the agreement approved by federal Judge Paul Barbadaro.