Desolo
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Ive been thinking alot about something odd ive noted about the whole pistol brace issue and want to see what you all think...
Ok, say we have a stripped ar 15 lower, never built, and we make it as a pistol.
We assemble the lower with a pistol brace ( shockwave, sb15, or even one of those buffer saddles).
We then attach it to an upper with a 16in barrel. Pistols have no legal specification for barrel length.
Being a pistol CAN become a rifle, and back again, AS LONG AS IT WAS A PISTOL WHEN ORGINALLY BUILT, and that it wasnt assembled in such a way that it had a stock while equipped with a less then 16in barrel....
Like the mechtech CCU's or thompson contenders, etc
My thought is this: How is shouldering this theoretical 16in barreled pistol equipped with a brace any different then "assembling" a rifle conversion kit, and making it a rifle of LEGAL length, and then "disassembling" it back into a pistol that is ALSO legal, ala taking the frame off the ccu and putting it back together as a handgun, or simply putting the stock back on the contender with a 16+in barrel.
So the crux of this is, in theory, how is an ar ( or any pistol equipped with a brace) with
A 16in barrel, that is freely convert able back and forth between a pistol and rifle, and due to its configuration CANNOT have a barrel length short enough to be an sbr while shouldered, any different then any number of kits that allow a pistol to be come a rifle on the fly?
Couldnt this weapon be treated as a pistol as long as it was NOT shouldered? Thereby allowing it to be in a vehicle with a simple ccw, yet as soon as it was picked up and SHOULDERED it becomes a rifle, which in most places is legal to have in the open, unconcealed, and it becomes a pistol once it is UNSHOULDERED?
Maddness? Or valid thought? If this makes sense, I can very well see a use for a brace equipped pistol.
Ok, say we have a stripped ar 15 lower, never built, and we make it as a pistol.
We assemble the lower with a pistol brace ( shockwave, sb15, or even one of those buffer saddles).
We then attach it to an upper with a 16in barrel. Pistols have no legal specification for barrel length.
Being a pistol CAN become a rifle, and back again, AS LONG AS IT WAS A PISTOL WHEN ORGINALLY BUILT, and that it wasnt assembled in such a way that it had a stock while equipped with a less then 16in barrel....
Like the mechtech CCU's or thompson contenders, etc
My thought is this: How is shouldering this theoretical 16in barreled pistol equipped with a brace any different then "assembling" a rifle conversion kit, and making it a rifle of LEGAL length, and then "disassembling" it back into a pistol that is ALSO legal, ala taking the frame off the ccu and putting it back together as a handgun, or simply putting the stock back on the contender with a 16+in barrel.
So the crux of this is, in theory, how is an ar ( or any pistol equipped with a brace) with
A 16in barrel, that is freely convert able back and forth between a pistol and rifle, and due to its configuration CANNOT have a barrel length short enough to be an sbr while shouldered, any different then any number of kits that allow a pistol to be come a rifle on the fly?
Couldnt this weapon be treated as a pistol as long as it was NOT shouldered? Thereby allowing it to be in a vehicle with a simple ccw, yet as soon as it was picked up and SHOULDERED it becomes a rifle, which in most places is legal to have in the open, unconcealed, and it becomes a pistol once it is UNSHOULDERED?
Maddness? Or valid thought? If this makes sense, I can very well see a use for a brace equipped pistol.
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