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He's wrong. To the contrary, SBRs & other class III type items are not "assault weapons" and thus are not subject to AW restrictions, pre- or post-ban.

Consider:
In the "Build It Yourself" forum, there is much discussion about how to make an AR-15 pistol legally. The most effective method seems to install a vertical foregrip, making it a Class III AOW (with all appropriate paperwork & taxes, of course) - that way you can legally have an otherwise illegal new post-ban "assault pistol". This is well-documented with BATF letters to the effect. Same idea for your SBR.

(5) The term ''shotgun'' means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger.

(6) The term ''short-barreled shotgun'' means a shotgun having one or more barrels less than eighteen inches in length and any weapon made from a shotgun (whether by alteration, modification or otherwise) if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches.

(7) The term ''rifle'' means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.

(8) The term ''short-barreled rifle'' means a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length and any weapon made from a rifle (whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise) if such weapon, as modified, has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches.

(29) The term ''handgun'' means -

      (A) a firearm which has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand; and

      (B) any combination of parts from which a firearm described in subparagraph (A) can be assembled.

(30) The term ''semiautomatic assault weapon'' means -

      (A) any of the firearms, or copies or duplicates of the firearms in any caliber, known as -

            (i) Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashnikovs (all models);
             (ii) Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI and Galil;
             (iii) Beretta Ar70 (SC-70);
             (iv) Colt AR-15;
             (v) Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC;
             (vi) SWD M-10, M-11, M-11/9, and M-12;
             (vii) Steyr AUG;
             (viii) INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9 and TEC-22; and
             (ix) revolving cylinder shotguns, such as (or similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12;

      (B) a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of -

            (i) a folding or telescoping stock;
            (ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
            (iii) a bayonet mount;
            (iv) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and
            (v) a grenade launcher;

      (C) a semiautomatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of -

            (i) an ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip;
            (ii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer;
            (iii) a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned;
            (iv) a manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded; and
            (v) a semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm; and

      (D) a semiautomatic shotgun that has at least 2 of -

            (i) a folding or telescoping stock;
            (ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
            (iii) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 rounds; and
            (iv) an ability to accept a detachable magazine.

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Let me see if I understand this. If I register my pre ban CAR-15 as an SRB, it loses it's preban status.

Now what if I remove it's SBR status, does it revert back to preban?

What BS.

The lower reciever is what is classified as the weapon, not the upper. Hence, as an already existing preban, you are NOT manufacturing a weapon, you are just REGISTERING it for an upper of under 16 inches in length.

That doesn't make it a new weapon, it  just makes it a REGISTERED weapon.

And how does Vector Arms get around the 16 inch rule for their new UZI's?

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18 USC 44 Sec. 921(a):

(5) The term ''shotgun'' means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger.

(6) The term ''short-barreled shotgun'' means a shotgun having one or more barrels less than eighteen inches in length and any weapon made from a shotgun (whether by alteration, modification or otherwise) if such a weapon as modified has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches.

(7) The term ''rifle'' means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.

(8) The term ''short-barreled rifle'' means a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length and any weapon made from a rifle (whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise) if such weapon, as modified, has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches.
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(28) The term ''semiautomatic rifle'' means any repeating rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.

(29) The term ''handgun'' means -

(A) a firearm which has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand; and

(B) any combination of parts from which a firearm described in subparagraph (A) can be assembled.

(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the possession or transfer of any semiautomatic assault weapon otherwise lawfully possessed under Federal law on the date of the enactment of this subsection.

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18 USC 44 Sec. 921(a):

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May be able to AOW a pistol I think, as the HK SP-89 has a forward grip available to make it similar to the MP5-K, and requires authorization to install the grip first.

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Am I way off base here ?, or did I stumble onto a "loophole"???
Dragracer(toomanystartinglineG's)ART

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Not a loophole - just not a semi-auto assault weapon because the features count is one or less.

Because it's a semi-automatic with a detachable magazine, and made after 9/13/94, it's got to conform to the 94 AW ban.  The fact that it has only the one feature (magazine which attaches outside the pistol grip) makes it a legal post-ban pistol.  Add another feature, and you've made a semi-auto assault weapon (which would be illegal).