This is the way....I'm a doctor and have bought guns with 4473s. I'm on the list. I can't live off the grid and provide for my family, at least not in america.
so yeah, it's cool to say build your own machine guns and drill out Wish cans and ****, but really $200 is a small price to pay to not get into federal prison for that.
that said I didn't register braced guns, and I didn't ever SBR anything I wasn't going to anyway. I also didn't take my braces off or stop carrying them, cause I knew it was going to fail and I was willing to pay for solid lawyers to fight it if I got in trouble for it in the meantime.
My beef is with the people that are upset because they paid $200 for permission and are mad at the people that " free SBR, why not?" Hell, if you were considering SBR'ing a pistol...this would have been a no brainer. It all circles the same drain.