To be honest, neither of these bother me.
I always found the "pistol braces" shady. Heck, I always found the idea of the AR-15 "pistol" shady. They sure look and operate like SBRs to me.
And the pistol kits don't bother me either. The distance from that lower, with all of the parts, and a fully operational pistol is pretty thin.
For me, the thing that bothers me is the law around these items didn't change, so why are they are problem? From my understanding, there was a ruling by the ATF on what "brace" was, and how it differed from a "stock". Same for "unfinished lowers" or "80%" kits. With those rulings certain products were manufactured and then purchased. I don't like that a new "ruling" can invalidate all the decisions made prior to it, and put companies and individuals in legal jeopardy.
But then, I'm a "spirit of the law" person, vs letter of the law person. It annoyed me to see piles of "25 rouns magazine 'repair' kits" at gun shows.
I had a response to this segment, but feel it leans more towards political instead of legal, so I'll leave those thoughts out of this thread.
Just because I don't like a law doesn't mean I can't respect that we have them and need to abide by them.
None of these things are "tyranny".
The two examples of braces and unfinished lowers may not be tyranny, but I do think we shouldn't tolerate an unstable, dictate via policy-vs.-law environment that breeds uncertainty for everyone that IS trying to abide by the laws.
@the mods; please let me know if this violates the political guidelines of the forum, I tried to keep it to the legal aspects of the topic but will edit any part you feel strays into political territory.