...it can have a long upper put on it, (no longer classifying as a pistol) but it can still revert to being a pistol. You just can't take a gun that was originally a rifle and make it into a pistol. So I would recommend having your lower transferred as a handgun on the 4473 and if possible, get a letter of certification that it wasn't built as a rifle prior to leaving the factory.
If you take the buttstock off of a rifle are you illegally converting a rifle into a pistol? It sounds like if the buttstock has ever been on it, then it must stay on it.
There is nothing illegal about my PLR-16 that shoots .223 out of a pistol. Why is there so much discussion on this?
INGunGuy
There is nothing illegal about my PLR-16 that shoots .223 out of a pistol. Why is there so much discussion on this?
INGunGuy
Wow, Joe, that was handled very well. Rep! (if I could!)
Redneck- what's the problem? Threads like this should stay open for future questions later on.
It's better to have a thread "Grow" if any more questions come up than to have 5 separate ones that are just slightly different from one another. Right? One-stop shopping?
You can turn just about anything into a rifle legally (this would included SBR). But if something was built as a rifle originally, it can't be turned into a pistol.If you build an AR as a pistol can you then later SBR it and put a stock on it? Do you have to SBR a receiver already registered as a rifle?
ar pistols are pistols. so they are legal, just do not put a stock on them. then you have a short barreled rifle. i have shot alot of ar-15 pistols and have never been impressed. profession ordinances were junk, bushmaster bought them. they never figured it out. rocky mountain arms never functioned right. i have always seen problums with short barrels in the ar action..... of course someone is going to say they have one and it works great though........ the best .223 pistol i have shot is the kel-tec PLR beleave it or not. i would take it over any ar-15 pistol. it uses the ar mags but has a gas piston and functions way better.
Well said!You almost say that as if you believe pistols and short barreled rifles are not reliable and not from the pov that its just the ones you've fired that are poor quality. You get what you pay for. If you're like the typical fool that just has to have an AR and buys the cheapest thing possible, of course it won't function well.
Buy an old beat up porsche and tell me that porsches don't handle well.