Can You Put a Rifle Upper on a Pistol Lower

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• #1

Can you legally build an ar pistol on a ar rifle lower or do y'all take to utilize a pistol lower for information technology to be legal?

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• #ii

"stripped", OK

"pistol", OK

"burglarize", No

If it has been a burglarize at one time in information technology's life, or if it was transferred as a long gun on the 4473, you can't build a pistol on information technology. If information technology was bought equally a bare or "stripped" receiver, you can build it as whatever you lot desire.

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• #3

"stripped", OK

"pistol", OK

"rifle", No

If information technology has been a burglarize at one time in it's life, or if it was transferred as a long gun on the 4473, yous can't build a pistol on it. If information technology was bought as a bare or "stripped" receiver, you can build information technology as whatever you want.

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i bought information technology as a brand new stripped reciever ftf. how do i know if it was ever transfered on a 4473 as a long gun?

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i bought information technology as a brand new stripped reciever ftf. how do i know if it was ever transfered on a 4473 as a long gun?

Unless you lot tin can trace it dorsum to the FFL and enquire them to wait upwards the course, you tin can't

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• #six

Just start from a new lower or a lower you can physically meet is from a pistol/marked equally a pistol lower.
No corporeality of fun is worth the caput aches

"in one case a rifle,always a burglarize" ?

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• #seven

No you can not if you go defenseless its bad juju

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• #viii

Can you legally build an ar pistol on a ar rifle lower or practice you lot take to use a pistol lower for it to be legal?

a friend of mine who has a pistol only to meet if it would fit but the long gun lower on a pistol is cool looking but not cool to shoot the back pressure level is nasty and not worth information technology and to put a long upper on a pistol lower is just stupid that bare buffer tube hurts like **** when it digs into you shoulder

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• #9

i did it once to a friend of mine who has a pistol just to see if information technology would fit merely the long gun lower on a pistol is absurd looking but not cool to shoot the back pressure is nasty and not worth it and to put a long upper on a pistol lower is just stupid that blank buffer tube hurts like **** when information technology diggs into you shoulder

um.......................ok how many laws did yous just acknowledge you violated on a public forum

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• #ten

um.......................ok how many laws did yous only admit you lot violated on a public forum

Technically I don't think any. Just created a long barrel pistol. Equally long as a stock wasn't added you tin can change the uppers effectually as much as yous want and every bit long as there wasn't a foregrip on the upper

Edit: Nevermind totally illegal read it backwards the first fourth dimension

• #eleven

but the long gun lower on a pistol is cool looking

Of course it is. Short barreled rifles do look cool. And without the NFA tax stamp are a Federal felony to assemble or possess.

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• #12

May want to edit your previous posts... To 'retract'

Glad we all got information technology figured out

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Every bit I sympathise... If you have a lower purchased as a "stripped" unit, the initial document will bear witness it as "multi". What that means is it'south up to you how it get's congenital. All you take to exercise is follow federal police and do the configuration correctly.
For the people edifice thier own ARs at home :
Every bit a rifle configuration - it has to be a 16" barrel or longer upper to take a lower with a stock.
Equally a pistol configuration upper it has to be a shorter butt and can't accept a lower with a stock.
Annihilation in combination is subject area to Federal Law and Revenue enhancement. A pistol upper on a burglarize lower requires a "SBR" tax stamp, which is quite a few dollars sent to the Gov and red tape wrapped all over you. A Burglarize upper on a pistol lower is illegal anyway.
The simplest thing to do is - don't mix and match parts.

• #14

A Burglarize upper on a pistol lower is illegal anyhow.

Actually? At that place is a max barrel length for a pistol?

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• #15

Unless you can trace it back to the FFL and ask them to look upwardly the form, you tin't

Actually whatsoever Lower Receiver is currently listed on a form 4473 as "Other" They are no longer listed equally Long Gun or Handgun.

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