So paying $200 to the Biden admin is cool, but sending that $200 to SAF or FPC to fight for us is 'selling out'. I see your logic hasn't improved any...$200 had nothing to do with it. Free had nothing to do with it.
It was complying with an illegal rule, not a law, and selling out your fellow gun owners. The pathetic part was that all it took was dangling "free" in front of what turned out to be only a small group of sellouts.
And you'll notice that the number of people who registered a Form 1 during that period had absolutely nothing to do, one way or the other, with how these various court cases came out... contrary to what certain people were claiming a few months ago.
If anything, having several hundred thousand documented brace-to-form 1 registrations will help any future challenge, since it will establish that there were at least that many braced guns in use for lawful purposes at the time the rule was being proposed.
As Caetano v. Mass showed, just a few thousand stun guns were able to make them fit into the Heller definition of 'common arms'. Several hundred thousand provably braced pistols should easily meet the same bar when this ruling gets appealed to SCOTUS.