PAUL BLART AF

Sometimes it feels like Israel only produces ridiculously cheesy plastic products, but that’s increasingly changing. When we first saw Recover Tactical’s bulky add-a-rail grip replacements for Beretta M9s, we were nonplussed. But they quickly followed that up with the slickest Glock rail adapters for Gen1 and 2 pistols and caught our attention. At SHOT Show 2020, we got handsy with the Recover Tactical 20/20 Glock stabilizer kit and knew we’d have to have one for ourselves.

There’s a lot of good along with some weirdness, plus a bit of complicated legal gray area to discuss.

LEGALESE

Before just throwing a pistol in the Recover 20/20 or any other pistol-brace-chassis, bear in mind that some law enforcement agencies may then consider your pistol an unregistered short-barreled rifle.

Braces have been a contentious subject over the last several years, with the BATFE’s seesaw “reinterpretation” regarding the legality of shouldering a braced pistol. There’s some talk of more shake-ups on these, but this is the best of our knowledge at the time of writing. Per nonpublic internal memos between the DOJ and BATFE that multiple sources have reported, at the time of publication there