You should read that.
Firearm receivers are not pistol receivers or rifle receivers.....as you've described above.
You can’t understand plain English, and apparently can’t get over the fact I said “an action left the factory as a rifle” and can’t understand that meant ASSEMBLED AS A COMPLETE RIFLE.
Never do I say, here, above, or anywhere, that firearm receivers are rifle or pistol receivers by any virtue of their own. Quite the contrary, I have spelled out the fact how they are assembled defines them, and spelled out how taking two different roads to the same configuration might be legal in one route, and not in another.
We have BOTH said above, it is the assembly of the bare action/receiver which defines the classification.
What you do not seem to grasp, in your TINY LITTE WORLD, is Item 4 is included in the definition of an NFA firearm, just as much as Item 3. Item 3 describes a rifle with barrels less than 16”, aka, an SBR.
Item 4, directly subsequent, describes a weapon made from a rifle with barrels less than 16” and an overall length of less than 26”. A bolt action “specialty pistol” with a barrel less than 16”, made from a rifle, such as the Krag in this post, or my own Rem 700’s, is not a pistol, despite looking like one. It is also NOT an SBR, as a rifle is designed to be fired from the shoulder, which these bolt action handguns are not, and may have a length under 26”.
If it were NOT made from an assembled rifle, but rather offered in that configuration from factory, or built from an action which had never been assembled into ANY configuration, then it WOULD be a Title 1 pistol. The Remington XP100, Savage Striker, and Nosler NCR are examples of this. But replicating such a specialty pistol with an action which was first assembled as a rifle does NOT make a pistol, despite looking like one. It creates an NFA Firearm, in this case, listed as a Weapon Made from a Rifle.
So no, you are not correct that all NFA firearms with short barrels are ONLY SBR’s. If the length is less than 26” and there is no provision to be fired from the shoulder, it’s a WMfaR, not an SBR. I can appreciate there aren’t many of us specialty pistol shooters, and that there’s seldom any sense in creating a specialty pistol from an assembled rifle, creating an NFA Firearm, rather than simply starting with a bare action. But it doesn’t change the fact, you’re absolutely ignoring all of the ATF documentation provided above.
