Kswhitetails Wrote:Are you sure about this? This gets into very dangerous territory as far as legal limitations go. From what I understand, not being a lawyer, is that in order for a lower to be registered as an "other" it has to either 1) come assembled with a pistol tube and brace 2) come assembled without any tube included 3) come stripped with no parts at all. Otherwise, if it has a stock, it's a rifle lower. Period. Check into this, OP.I am 100% sure about it, they are transferred as "Other" does not have to have a pistol tube on it and indeed one can use a regular receiver extension if one wants but best not have an extra stock laying around that does not have a legal use for. The stock does Not make it a rifle lower, it can only become a rifle lower if the "psa" stocked lower was first fully assembled into a rifle and then from that point forward it can only be a rifle lower. As noted if one receives the psa stocked lower from the ffl they would process the paper work as "other" if the by chance processed as a "rifle" that would have been done incorrectly. Since these have not been fully assembled the manufacture would process their paper work as "other" also. I've been in the AR pistol game for at least the past 10 years, I've read plenty of atf letters regarding all sorts of different oddities regarding AR pistols, this is not new to me but to someone new to the AR pistol our friends at the atf sure make difficult to comprehend.
One can go from pistol to rifle and back to pistol and be in compliance, one cannot go from an originally built rifle to pistol and back...illegal. The Thompson Contender is one such weapon when started out as a pistol that can also be converted to a rifle and back to pistol. You start with the pistol, take off the short barrel and install the long barrel then add your stock. When going back to the pistol from the rifle configuration, you remove the stock first, then the long barrel attach your pistol grip and then the short barrel.
eta; Les it is indeed screwy and I too never thought that the braces would pass muster and I hope they continue on and don't fall they way of the bump stock.