cjames3 Member Joined: Nov 2010  SC, USA Posts: 278 Feedback: 100% (1)	Posted: 7/15/2012 2:55:06 AM THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT I HAVE AN EXTRA STRIPPED LOWER AND BARREL LAYING AROUND..I AM WANTING TO MAKE A PISTOL...MY BARREL IS A 16IN HEAVY BARREL. I HAVE THE TOOLS TO CUT AND THREAD THE BARREL..WOULD THE BARREL BE OK IF I CUT IT DOWN TO 10IN?
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balloo93 Member Team Member Joined: Jan 2008  TX, USA Posts: 3945 Feedback: 100% (111) Link To This Post	Posted: 7/15/2012 3:55:58 AM As long as it's a carbine gas system sure. Do not assemble and put a regular receiver extension on it. Throw a pistol extension on and you should be good to go.
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baxsom Member Joined: Mar 2010  FL, USA Posts: 464 Feedback: 100% (8) Link To This Post	Posted: 7/15/2012 6:01:10 AM was it originally purchased as a rifle lower?
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osprey21 Known Associate Life Member Joined: Jan 2001  FL, USA Posts: 80372 Feedback: 100% (170) Link To This Post	Posted: 7/15/2012 6:35:12 AM Has your "extra" lower ever been assembled with a shoulder stock? If so magic pixie dust falls from the sky and ATF christens it a rifle. When first built into a rifle, it's ALWAYS a rifle in the eyes of the ATF.
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bdawg998 Jack of all trades, master at none. Team Member Joined: Sep 2007  TN, USA Posts: 3208 Feedback: 100% (57) Link To This Post	Posted: 7/15/2012 6:51:33 AM Originally Posted By baxsom: was it originally purchased as a rifle lower? Irrelevant. As long as it was never assembled as a rifle, it can be assembled as a pistol.
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baxsom Member Joined: Mar 2010  FL, USA Posts: 465 Feedback: 100% (8) Link To This Post	Posted: 7/15/2012 7:13:40 AM Every stripped lower I have ever bought had long gun written on the paperwork. Has to mean something doesn't it?
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j3_ Member Team Member Joined: Feb 2001  GA, USA Posts: 6085 Feedback: 100% (53) Link To This Post	Posted: 7/15/2012 7:27:58 AM Originally Posted By baxsom: Every stripped lower I have ever bought had long gun written on the paperwork. Has to mean something doesn't it? Your dealer could have logged them as a pistol if you asked him to. Now stripped lowers are required to be logged as a receiver.
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Posted: 7/15/2012 8:28:33 AM Originally Posted By bdawg998: Originally Posted By baxsom: was it originally purchased as a rifle lower? Irrelevant. As long as it was never assembled as a rifle, it can be assembled as a pistol. This, and it needs to be completely assembled as in having an upper attached. You can also use what reciever extension you want, but you may not want to have any extra stocks laying around and you may want to wrap it paracord or something of the like. I would cut the barrel to 10.5 and no shorter.

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