Quoted: Ok so it should be legal. Do I first have to own a pistol lower? What if I have found a great deal on a 14.5 upper, but don't have the pistol lower yet? Is it ok if I have a regular lower in the house? I am assuming it is the action of ataching the pistol upper to the rifle lower that is illegal, not owning both. My god these laws are stupid. SBR laws are just as usefull as the useless AWB. Nevertheless I will work around them. Stock or no stock.
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Here's what I understand (if I'm wrong, I'll quickly be corrected)
-the lower receiver (the part with the ser#) is the part that MUST be registered as a pistol when it is sold NEW. You
cannot take a lower receiver that was ORIGINALLY sold as a rifle and then make that into a pistol.
-you can take a registered pistol lower and make into a short barrel rifle, but you MUST do the required forms (and fund$) to make it a registered SBR.
-if you have a registered pistol lower receiver, you can put anything you damn well please on top of that just as long as there is no vertical foregrip. So if you want to switch your 14" upper from your rifle over to your registered pistol lower, go for it. (Just don't put the 10.5" upper from your pistol onto your rifle lower unless you get it registered as a SBR).
I picked up a new "blemished" lower receiver from RB Precision for $75.00 and they sold it to me as a pistol, so I could register it as such.
Hope that helps. Yeah, the laws do suck. Atleast you don't live in Komifornia.
Gene