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Posted: 4/21/2011 7:55:48 PM EDT
| A few days ago I picked up a couple "virgin" Stag stripped lowers in a private transaction, initially with the intention of building 2 matched 16" rifles. Now I'm thinking it would be fun to build one 16" rifle and one 10.5" pistol. Never built one before. I'm curious if there's any risk in building a pistol out of what I assume, and have been told, is a virgin lower. Can't go the SBR route due to living in the People's Republik of IL. Don't want to build it and find out later it that some factory paperwork had it listed as a rifle lower. Any way to verify? |
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There is no such thing as a "rifle lower" until it's been assembled into a rifle.
If there's no evidence of there being a buffer tube installed, and Stag says they were shipped as stripped lowers, that's about all you can check at this point. Folks building pistols usually try to avoid buying receivers second hand just for this reason. |
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I know they were shipped as stripped lowers, I have the original shipping boxes.
I also know they were never assembled into rifles after they shipped from the factory. My only concern was whether Stag might have had them classified as "rifle" lowers in any way. As long as the manufacturers don't do that, I'm not worried. I know they were purchased from the factory with the original owner intended on making them into pistols, but he never had the time, so he sold them to me as they came from the factory. Aside from taking them out of the box occasionally to look at them, nothing every happened to them after they left the factory. Thanks |
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You are good to go. Even if Stag said they were rifle lowers, since they shipped stripped it doesn't matter. All stripped lowers should have been done on the 4473 as "other" if the FFL who sold them has any since at all.
Quit worrying, you are OK. The ATFE, in spite of what many believe, do NOT go around checking every pistol AR they see to verify it was shipped as an "other" or "pistol" lower. Neither do cops go around checking every AR pistol they see. All that paranoia is from the tin hat crowd and by the time the police OR the ATFE got around to verifying that your lowers were actually "other" and had never been assembled as rifles before you made a pistol, you would already be in jail and have a LOT bigger problems than that throw away charge. Keep your nose clean, don't give the police or ATFE reason to come knocking at your door with warrants from a variety of serious crimes and you do not have to worry. |
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