I'm looking for a place to buy ar15 parts to include a lower. Googling only produced a source for polymer lowers. Believe it or not I'm actually semi mentally competent so I don't need a polymer lower.

Thanks in advance!

I bought two Grizzly/LAR receivers from Get Some Guns in Murray for $80 each, last fall right before Sandy Hook.

Are you a Utah resident?

I picked up an aeroprecision lower from LANworld in Draper a few weeks ago, $75, not sure if price has changed since then though.

Bean Firearms for a billet.

No and it bit me right in my butthole. I tried to buy a complete lower but I was unaware that even though it has the buttstock already on it the law treats it like a pistol,

Anyways thanks for the info guys.

a completely stripped lower would need an FFL transfer as well if your not a Utah reisdent

He could buy it from a Utah dealer, but he would need to have them ship and transfer it to a FFL in his state.

 

Where are you guys getting your answers?  

 I believe the correct answer is YES, if its a RIFLE/Long Arm or SHOTGUN.  Depending on the FFL holder.

 NO, if its a pistol as it HAS to go through an FFL holder in YOUR home State (of Residence).







I am a resident of Utah though - so unassembled lowers may be different...  I couldn't locate a SPECIFIC reference though.

 GET SOME just ended their $75 LAR GRIZZLY stripped lower sale today (just in time for the Hysteria to begin again this year...)

 I got all of mine in time & on SALE!!


~Will

I thought because a stripped lower can be turned into a pistol its treated like a handgun, but I could be mistaken.

AR receivers are treated differently than a completed rifle. Receivers, whether they are assembled with a butt stock or not, are treated like pistols. That means, can't sell to someone under 21 or sell to out of state residents.

Is there a reference for this above info?

I did find this rule clarification from the ATF: http://www.atf.gov/files/regulations-rulings/rulings/atf-rulings/atf-ruling-2011-4.pdf

It basically states, that receivers can be 'assembled' as a pistol, and to a 'rifle' and back to a pistol again as long as the laws are followed about 922(r) compliance and NFA laws.

I still have not seen a ruling or holding that JUST BECAUSE a weapon receiver (the serial numbered "WEAPON" part that is the WEAPON, & not just parts) CAN be made into a pistol, it HAS to be transferred as a PISTOL.  

If someone knows WHERE this is, please reference it.


Another belief: A firearm that has started life as a rifle, CAN NOT be made into a pistol, due to the wording in the law. You can go from pistol to rifle, and now back to pistol, but you CAN NOT go from rifle to pistol. ?


Confusing as hell !


EDITED TO ADD: Thanks MedicMan & Tactical Coyote!  I sincerely appreciate the references!  

Thanks medicmandan, beat me to it.


This is correct. You can buy a stripped lower, and make it into a rifle or pistol and be perfectly legal. But if that lower/rifle came from the factory with a stock on it, it cannot be made into a pistol.