If you own a handgun with shoulder stock, please post pics.
Glocks, Lugers, Broomhandle Mausers, 1903 Brownings, Hi Powers, 1924 Berettas, Astras, 1911s - any and all.
Always wanted one, but can't have it. So just want to envy others that do.
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Norinco982lover
October 5, 2009, 12:48 PM
I didn't know you were allowed to slap a shoulder stock on any old pistol...at least not without sending some money to Uncle Ob..I mean Uncle Sam.
~Norinco
HGUNHNTR
October 5, 2009, 01:00 PM
The all important "at least" Yes the general public is allowed a pistol with a shoulder stock.
batjka
October 5, 2009, 01:02 PM
Not the modern handguns, like Glocks. That you have to pay a $200 tax for.
However, the C&R military handguns can have original shoulder stocks without being classified as SBR. That includes Lugers, Hi Power Brownings, Broomhandles, etc.
rcmodel
October 5, 2009, 01:20 PM
Some of them can, and some of them can't.
There is a list of the ones that can somewhere on the ATF website.
Just because they have a stock slot doesn't mean you can put a stock on them if they are not on the "exempt" list as a rare collectable gun..
rc
Sam1911
October 5, 2009, 02:19 PM
Just because they have a stock slot doesn't mean you can put a stock on them if they are not on the "exempt" list as a rare collectable gun..
I've also read several times here on THR that the shoulder stock itself must be an original as well. Not a reproduction. Though I don't know how that's enforced, exactly.
-Sam
Carl N. Brown
October 5, 2009, 04:22 PM
I wrote an inquiry to ATF Firearms Technology Branch shortly after I acquired an original Mauser C96 broomhandle.
Their response indicated that an original (pre-1946) Mauser C96 with original shoulder stock was no longer treated as a Title II (1934 National Firearms Act) firearm but as a Title I (1968 Gun Control Act) pistol, due to its value as a collector's item making it less likely to be owned as a weapon. Also, a replica shoulder stock that reproduced the original was OK with an original pistol as a collectors item. A new (post-1946) pistol with shoulder stock, or a new design shoulder stock that did not duplicate an original collectible, would be an NFA firearm.
rcmodel
October 5, 2009, 04:26 PM
It's been my experience that shoulder stocks on handguns ain't all they are cracked up to be anyway.
Every one I have shot was too short, and placed the handguns sights too close to the eye for proper sight alignment.
They had a place on machine pistols, as they do help control during full-auto fire.
But that don't help target accuracy any that I could see.
In fact, they hurt it because the sights are so close to your eye.
rc
KBintheSLC
October 5, 2009, 04:31 PM
I always thought a pistol with a stock was called an SBR... requiring a class III.
A printed copy of the letter goes in the case when I take it to the range. There is always someone who just knows that it is illegal and I'm going to Club Fed case closed no appeal.
Tell me someone didn't SERIOUSLY drill and tap a Luger?
Also, IIRC, that bottom image is an odd-duck .45ACP Luger with a S/N past the range they thought were devoted to such items, causing a great deal of consternation.
Carl N. Brown
October 5, 2009, 08:15 PM
OK
http://thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=106653&stc=1&d=1254784322
PandaBearBG
October 5, 2009, 10:11 PM
Soo, if you placed one of those Mech Tech uppers on a 1911 or a glock would that constitute "placing a stock" on a pistol?
Jim Watson
October 5, 2009, 10:15 PM
No.
Because it has a 16" barrel inseparable from the stock and turns the pistol into a legal carbine.
batjka
October 6, 2009, 12:38 PM
Nice C-96.
Do you use Chinese or German stripper clips? How well do they work?
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