Who would know? I understand FFLs being concerned with it, but private transactions between us commoners? Anyone ever visit a TC contender aficionado? Yeah, good luck sorting that one out.
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This is correct last time I looked it up but that was a while ago on any gun pistol can be made a rifle but never a riffle to a pistol without going threw atf paperwork from what I understand that is on reg guns not the Nfa guns they have their own rulesi think you can put a rifle upper on a pistol lower,as long as it never gets a butt stock. the lower was still a pistol...
you cant put a pistol upper on a rifle,because then its an sbr.
a pistol has a barrel less than 16",but it does not have a max length to be a pistol...
Correct. That would be illegal.So, if I built an 80% 1911 frame and first mounted it on a CCU upper (rifle), I couldn't later use it with a 1911 slide (pistol)?
There is no new ruling yet. Still open for comments till sometime in September. I have told people in the past to do just as you suggest. Build it as pistol first. Take pictures where the serial number can be seen and save it for future reference.So, The bottom line for me is that if I ever want to build or assemble an AR-15 firearm, I will not build it initially as a rifle.
I will instead have it configured first as a pistol. I'll shoot it, get some pictures taken with me using it, and then I will feel free to add a rifle length barrel & a stock. After that I can take those things back off and restore them whenever I wish.
I have more flexibility that way.
(But, ATFs new ruling about "arm stabilization braces" pretty much kills any interest I ever had in an AR type of pistol.
I'd be wanting the kind of brace that serves very well as a shoulder stock.)