AR-fags, need input.
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Okay. /K/anadafag here. Having a discussion with someone about SBR AR's vs pistol AR's.
My question is, if you started with a bare lower, bare upper, and bought a 7.5" or 9" barrel, dp you need to do anything special before assembly?
I know with an SBR, you'd have to pay the $200 NFA tax stamp and wait, but my knowledge of AR pistols is lacking.
You can build a pistol and then make it a rifle, but you can't build a rifle and then make it a pistol... legally. I'm building a 300BLK pistol right now that will become an SBR as soon as I get the stamp.
To clarify more, the difference between a pistol and sbr is literally cosmetic. No shoulderable stock or vertical fore grip on the pistol, but you can use either a Sig Brace or KAK Shockwave and an angled fore grip.
>>30308607
Stripped lowers can be sold as pistols or rifles.
If sold as a rifle you would be making an illegal SBR, if sold as a pistol and didn't put a stock on it you would be A ok.
You can go Pistol ---> Rifle as well.
But you cannot go Rifle ----> Pistol.
If it was an 80% lower that you finished then its whatever you made it into first.
So a lower is just a lower until you build it into a rifle or pistol.
You don't need some special "pistol" lower or any nonsense like that?
>>30308653
When I bought mine it was marked "other", you have to be 21 to buy it at least in TX and MO
>>30308653
Stripped lowers are sold as "other".
>>30308671
Correct. Make it into a pistol first, that way you can go from pistol - rifle - pistol.
>>30308653
Why can you make a pistol into a rifle, but not the other way around?
>>30308795
cause the atf is retarded
>>30308795
A pistol can become a rifle and then go back to being a pistol. A rifle can't because reasons
>>30308795
Because american gun laws are written and approved of by people who don't know anything about guns.
>>30308795
You can, it just requires a $200 stamp and permission from the dogkillers
>>30308831
Canadian laws are they same way.
>>30308811
>A pistol can become a rifle and then go back to being a pistol
Nope. Once a rifle. Always a rifle.
Well I thank you for the great answers so far. That clears up a few things.
>>30309280
That's only when starting as a rifle.
A pistol can goto rifle configuration and back as lonag as at no point it crosses through the NFA territory. Put the long barrel on first and take it off last.
>>30309280
Incorrect, look up the TC case. As long as it is first manufactured as a pistol it can go back and forth.
>>30309280
Every fucking thread.
