[gazpacho]

An idea just popped into my head and I was curious . . . would a vertical forward grip, permanently mounted on a silencer, make a pistol it was attached to an AOW?

Since the silencer would already be a registered weapon, would the pistol have to be registered an AOW to make it all legal?

[Maxwell]

I never understood the deal with the barrel length thing anyway.
A pistol with a stock is not much more dangerous than a carbine, nor is there a real difference in danger between a .223 ar and a .223 pistol.

One wonders why they havnt just quit that law already :banghead:

[Chipperman]

Without looking anything up, and just going from my understanding of AOWs...

My answer is that yes it would need to be also registered as an AOW.

[cmidkiff]

From my very limited understanding of the NFA... Suppressors are registered on their own, with their own tax stamp. Never seen a grip mounted to a suppressor, but I'd be worried that you could bend it far enough out of allignment to cause a problem with the added leverage. Putting a removable forward grip onto a pistol would make it an AOW... I'd guess that you'd need stamps for both.

If I were interested in doing so, I'd call the ATF and ask.

Unfortunatly, suppressors are forbidden to us regular citizens here in MO.

[Hkmp5sd]

It would still need the AOW tax stamp.

[boofus]

Yup.

[gazpacho]

That was my guess. Oh well.

I was thinking a HK Mark 23 with a supressor and VFG would be a cool package.

[DragonRider]

If you tried that you would risk making your pistol single shot due to the fact you would be pressuring the suppressor which is connected to the barrell which HAS to move. Remember that both the slide and the barrel move when a shot is fired. You would restrict that with a VFG.

Just a thought.

John