thewillweeks
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So this post is two fold in purpose. One purpose is to comment on Henry Repeating arms and their firearms, and secondly to as a legal question.
So first off, I recently purchased a used Henry Mare’s Leg (or mares leg if Mare’s Leg is copyrighted?) in .22lr. I didn’t need it, I’m just currently without a .22 and I was offered one in a cash and trade deal for something I was getting rid of. I bought the item (of irrelevant nature) in question for $30 a few years back, and added that to $80 cash and picked up the mares leg. It came with a broken handle but it was still functional so I figured what the hey, not much for the metal part of the gun and I should be able to fix or replace the stock right?
I searched around for replacement stocks, regrettably after buying the pistol, and couldn’t find any. So, I contacted Henry to see if I could order directly from them by phone or something since they didn’t list it on their website. I emailed at about 11pm at night and before 8am the next morning I had a response thanking me for purchasing a Henry rifle and informing me that if I would provide the S/N and a mailing address I’d have a free stock in the mail soon.
That’s incredible customer service in my book. I’m a second hand (at least) owner, with no receipt or other means of dating the age of the gun, and the gun was broken by the previous owner (tripped and fell on it supposedly, I don’t know what to think of that...). Needless to say I’m quite pleased, the gun is in good overall shape, just needed the new stock/grip and needs a little surface rust (only visible in the right light) cleaned off and it’ll look like new.
Now to the legal question. I know that putting a full size stock on my mares leg would make it an SBR, don’t have the time and money to stamp it so that’s not gonna happen. I also know that you can’t convert a rifle to a pistol, once serialized as a rifle it’s a rifle for life unless you stamp it as an SBR then you can have a pistol length barrel on it. However, someone recently told me, and I’m not sure of the legality of this, that if you have a pistol you can add a permanently attached muzzle device (such as a faux suppressor or bloop tube or flash suppressor or etc....) and a stock and it becomes a legal rifle. Presuming I have a gunsmith pin or hot solder (it has to be like 1100 degrees I think) a muzzle device on it extending it from 12.9 inches to 16+ inches and the whole device then exceeds 26~ inches I should be legal to then attach a stock and have a legal rifle right? Baring of course some state law against such conversions.
I’m pretty confident that I’ll love the gun, but I want to know my options if I decide I think it’s awkward to have what feels like a cut down rifle as a pistol. Thanks guys!
So first off, I recently purchased a used Henry Mare’s Leg (or mares leg if Mare’s Leg is copyrighted?) in .22lr. I didn’t need it, I’m just currently without a .22 and I was offered one in a cash and trade deal for something I was getting rid of. I bought the item (of irrelevant nature) in question for $30 a few years back, and added that to $80 cash and picked up the mares leg. It came with a broken handle but it was still functional so I figured what the hey, not much for the metal part of the gun and I should be able to fix or replace the stock right?
I searched around for replacement stocks, regrettably after buying the pistol, and couldn’t find any. So, I contacted Henry to see if I could order directly from them by phone or something since they didn’t list it on their website. I emailed at about 11pm at night and before 8am the next morning I had a response thanking me for purchasing a Henry rifle and informing me that if I would provide the S/N and a mailing address I’d have a free stock in the mail soon.
That’s incredible customer service in my book. I’m a second hand (at least) owner, with no receipt or other means of dating the age of the gun, and the gun was broken by the previous owner (tripped and fell on it supposedly, I don’t know what to think of that...). Needless to say I’m quite pleased, the gun is in good overall shape, just needed the new stock/grip and needs a little surface rust (only visible in the right light) cleaned off and it’ll look like new.
Now to the legal question. I know that putting a full size stock on my mares leg would make it an SBR, don’t have the time and money to stamp it so that’s not gonna happen. I also know that you can’t convert a rifle to a pistol, once serialized as a rifle it’s a rifle for life unless you stamp it as an SBR then you can have a pistol length barrel on it. However, someone recently told me, and I’m not sure of the legality of this, that if you have a pistol you can add a permanently attached muzzle device (such as a faux suppressor or bloop tube or flash suppressor or etc....) and a stock and it becomes a legal rifle. Presuming I have a gunsmith pin or hot solder (it has to be like 1100 degrees I think) a muzzle device on it extending it from 12.9 inches to 16+ inches and the whole device then exceeds 26~ inches I should be legal to then attach a stock and have a legal rifle right? Baring of course some state law against such conversions.
I’m pretty confident that I’ll love the gun, but I want to know my options if I decide I think it’s awkward to have what feels like a cut down rifle as a pistol. Thanks guys!
