berettaprofessor
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Like many others here, I'm waiting the final form of Rule 2021R8 to determine what happens with my pistol AR's; i.e. Do I replace them with longer barrels, SBR them, or a mixture?
However, that said, does anyone have any indication yet, from current law or from the last proposal, whether it will be legal to register a single SBR'ed AR lower receiver and switch multiple pistol-length uppers on it? Or do I misunderstand the nature of an SBR. and the "whole rifle" is SBR'ed, one lower to each upper on each tax stamp?
Said more simply, say, for example that I currently have three pistol-length AR's, 223, 300BO, and 22LR with either bare buffer tubes or braces, each on a separate lower. Will I be able to stay legal if I register only one lower as an SBR and swap the uppers among it, being careful never to put any of the 3 uppers on a non-SBR'ed lower?
Similarly, will it be "constructive intent" and therefore legally dangerous, or whatever the term is, to have pistol-length uppers and non-SBR'ed AR lowers in the same household even if they're never mated together?
And can I ever place a standard length (i.e. 18 inch for example) barreled upper on an SBR'ed lower and then switch the upper out to a pistol length again?
The SBR concept makes sense for me for non-modular rifles, but my understanding falls apart with AR's. I'm just trying to plan. I have a 9mm braced pistol that I will definitely apply to SBR, and I'll have to see what happens in the language with Ruger Charger's and decide what to do with those, but the AR pistols are confusing to me.
However, that said, does anyone have any indication yet, from current law or from the last proposal, whether it will be legal to register a single SBR'ed AR lower receiver and switch multiple pistol-length uppers on it? Or do I misunderstand the nature of an SBR. and the "whole rifle" is SBR'ed, one lower to each upper on each tax stamp?
Said more simply, say, for example that I currently have three pistol-length AR's, 223, 300BO, and 22LR with either bare buffer tubes or braces, each on a separate lower. Will I be able to stay legal if I register only one lower as an SBR and swap the uppers among it, being careful never to put any of the 3 uppers on a non-SBR'ed lower?
Similarly, will it be "constructive intent" and therefore legally dangerous, or whatever the term is, to have pistol-length uppers and non-SBR'ed AR lowers in the same household even if they're never mated together?
And can I ever place a standard length (i.e. 18 inch for example) barreled upper on an SBR'ed lower and then switch the upper out to a pistol length again?
The SBR concept makes sense for me for non-modular rifles, but my understanding falls apart with AR's. I'm just trying to plan. I have a 9mm braced pistol that I will definitely apply to SBR, and I'll have to see what happens in the language with Ruger Charger's and decide what to do with those, but the AR pistols are confusing to me.