[WalkerTexasRanger]

I have an M1 Carbine that I was considering adding a paratrooper style folding stock to just to have something different from my others.

After doing some thinking, would this not be then defined as an assault weapon? It would have three (bad) of the so called "evil features" A detachable mag, a pistil grip, and the folding stock.

Further, regarding the Choate folding stocks for Ruger 10/22s, wouldn't adding one of these constitute the same???

I see these aftermarket stocks everywhere and am thinking that most people just dont realize that even with a 10/22, the law is not ONLY related to AR-15s, but specific "features."

Input would be appreciated...

[gun-fucious]

if its pre 1994 manufacture than it is preban and can have any features

your local laws may vary
YMMV, IANAL, IDNPOOTV

[3 gun]

That may not be true. Another post here on THR has a letter from the ATF stating that a pre-ban AR, built into a post-ban configuration, can not be rebuilt back into a pre-ban form.

[trapshooter]

unless the gun was transferred like that, or they were somehow informed, how would they know? If I own both a post- and a pre- ban weapon, the 'possession of parts to do x' thing wouldn't hold water. Of course, that hasn't stopped prosecution in the past.

I still question how ATF would know if a private party had done the pre- to post- to pre- re-configuration, though, absent some other knowledge.

[Hkmp5sd]

ATF is of the position that unless a firearm was assembled into a complete assault weapon configuration at the time of the assault weapon ban in 1994, it cannot now be made into a configuration banned by the bill.

There are some that believe this is not what the letter of the law states. They consider any firearm (including a stripped receiver) as a pre-ban assault weapon if it was manufactured prior to the 1994 effective date.

ATF recently issued a letter stating that a complete preban AR, if stripped and the receiver sold by itself to another person, that person cannot buy the parts to return that receiver to a preban configuration.

But as mentioned above, as long as the gun was manufactured prior to the ban, how can anyone prove it didn't have a folding stock when the ban took place?

[Ian]

Sounds like a great intro to passive civil disobediance to me. Technically illegal, but nobody can prove it. Go for it.