06-09-2020, 04:33 PM
Lastrites Wrote:The issue isn't a brand new lower w/stock, as that doesn't make a lower a dedicated rifle lower. What makes it originally a rifle is when he placed his completed rifle upper on it for the very first time and it still had a stock on it, if that is the actually case. If he placed a long barreled upper on the lower and he had already removed the stock prior to it would be classified as being built as a pistol first, adding the stock later then converted it to a rifle. I always build my lowers as pistols first no matter what the final build is going to be as it leaves options open.
Now for all we know he had removed the stock prior to the upper being put into place but he hadn't mentioned it.
That's not technically correct. The ATF and federal government only considers the lower as a firearm regardless of what length barreled upper you intend to put on it.
It doesn't matter if it came into his ownership as a stripped are completed lower, if the lower in question has had a carbine are rifle at15 stock on it before having a pistol brace on it. In the eyes of the ATF and federal government it is always a rifle from that point on. No matter how it was filed when he took position if it.
The only way for a ar15 lower to be used legally as a pistol with pistol brace is if it was purchased assembled with a pistol brace are if bought as a stripped lower and the first install was with a pistol brace.