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6/14/2014 10:51:50 AM EDT
i have a 9mm Rock River upper and want to switch to a dedicated lower from CMMG. I plan to shorten the barrel and run it as a pistol. Are the CMMG lowers marked pistol or does it even matter as long as I never assemble it as a rifle?

I have a VM-HyTech but I don't really care for it and will end up selling it. Will the CMMG lower hold open for the last round?
6/14/2014 12:19:52 PM EDT
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What is marked on the lower doesn't matter.  Even if it says pistol, you can throw a 16+" bbl on it & build it as a rifle.  You can get a lower marked 40W range phaser and build it as a .410" PG shotgun w/ a sub-18" bbl.  It's the legal configuration that's important, not the lower markings.
6/14/2014 10:29:28 PM EDT
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It is not marked as pistol, but as long as it was never built as a rifle previously you can make it a pistol.
6/15/2014 9:30:00 PM EDT
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One of those crazy rules thing.  If it was first registered as a pistol you can make it into a rifle and its OK. Change it back to a pistol and you are OK. But, if it was registered as a rifle when sold you can NOT change it into a pistol. Got that? If you did, good, because no one else can actually understand why they did iut that way.
6/15/2014 10:01:50 PM EDT
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It's that stupid rule that prevents me from cutting the stock and buffer tube off of my M&P15-22 and turning it into a pistol.
6/15/2014 11:18:53 PM EDT
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One of those crazy rules thing.  If it was first registered as a pistol you can make it into a rifle and its OK. Change it back to a pistol and you are OK. But, if it was registered as a rifle when sold you can NOT change it into a pistol. Got that? If you did, good, because no one else can actually understand why they did iut that way.
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It is not marked as pistol, but as long as it was never built as a rifle previously you can make it a pistol.


One of those crazy rules thing.  If it was first registered as a pistol you can make it into a rifle and its OK. Change it back to a pistol and you are OK. But, if it was registered as a rifle when sold you can NOT change it into a pistol. Got that? If you did, good, because no one else can actually understand why they did iut that way.


Because FDR was going to ban pistols in the NFA along w/ machineguns, but realized @ the last minute he didn't have the votes.  So they switched pistols from Title 2 to Title 1 - pistols were originally going to be a $200 tax stamp.
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