Jason313
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A conversion cylinder would make it fall under modern firearms and he’d be arrested for felon with a firearm.
Absolutely conversion cylinder if one is a felon puts it squarely under usc title 18 section 924.g, even to have possession of a conversion cylinder in say the same house, and not installed, supreme Court ruled a similar case where someone has a semiauto asualt rifle and the (completely legal to own) conversion kit uninstalled in the home, they got him for possession of.a machine gun (yes I know it's not a true machine gun but that's the words used in the law for any weapon which fires more than one shot with a "single trigger action". (That's why you can modify an AK to fire on the pull and again on the release, so two shots with one pull, since the pull and the release are two distinct actions.)
Likely true, but the day he uses it to protect himself it would become an issue.
Regardless as he seems to have changed direction, and with a family the repercussions would be even greater, especially being a felony I’d assume. It’s just not worth the risk in my opinion.
The problem with hollow points is expansion velocity and cavity clogging. Unless I'm using a conversion cylinder, I only use solid bullets in muzzleloaders and percussion handguns. I would rather have a solid bullet that performs consistently than a hollow point that's the opposite.
If a round ball expands, use that. If a conical gives a better wound cavity, use that. My 1858 stopping load is a Lee conical bullet over 30 or 35 grains of Triple 7. Hits harder than standard .45 ACP hardball. Don't shoot that in a brass frame tho.