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Posted: 1/22/2008 8:50:40 AM EDT
| I don't want to or plan on building an SBR, but I was thinking the other day about how some people spend so much time and money to get them legally. I was wondering would it be legal if you got a lower and transferred it as a pistol. Then you'd put the SBR upper on with the pistol buffer tube and take a pic. Then add a telescoping stock that could be fired unshouldered. Would it be legal? |
Make it legal for the picture, then make it illegal after that? Is that legal? No.
| Not at all. Adding a stock of any kind makes it illegal unless its an SBR. And it doesn't cost that much to SBR a rifle. Only 200 for a tax stamp, and as far as time, just takes enough to fill out 2 pages of forms and visit your local CLEO. Easily done in a day. |
Putting a stock on something makes it designed to be fired from the shoulder, making it a rifle, not a pistol, therefore illegal in what you were asking and very suspicious in the way you were asking about taking a picture without the stock and then adding the stock? See my understanding behind the statement? 
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| Yeah. Like I said, I haven't wanted to or plan to build a pistol or SBR. I only plan on ever doing one more AR and it's going to be a 14.5" (with permanent FH) middy. I wasn't sure, just curious as to if it would work or not, since it could be fired from the hand. |
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OK, think of it this way: SBR = short barrel rifle. Rifle with barrel less than 16" is a SBR. Pistols already have a short barrel. Adding a stock onto a pistol turns it into an SBR. If you want an SBR without going through the hassles of a tax stamp, get a .223 pistol with a full length rifle buffer tube. Don't put a stock on it and just put the tube against your shoulder. Also, don't make it "easily convertable" meaning, don't use a true rifle buffer tube that you can just throw on a stock. Don't even have a spare stock around! Hardwarz |
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