Pistols with vertical forgrips = AOWs correct?

[psyopspec]

So this:

To lawfully add a vertical fore grip to a handgun, a person must make an appropriate application on ATF Form 1, “Application to Make and Register a Firearm.” The applicant must submit the completed form, along with a fingerprint card bearing the applicant’s fingerprints; a photograph; and $200.00.

Or this:

A person may also send the handgun to a person licensed to manufacture NFA weapons. The manufacturer will install the fore grip on the firearm and register the firearm on an ATF Form 2. The manufacturer can then transfer the firearm back to the individual on an ATF Form 4, which results in a $5.00 transfer tax. If the manufacturer is out of State, the NFA Branch will need a clarification letter submitted with the ATF Form 4 so that the NFA Branch Examiner will know the circumstances of the transfer.

... Are a person's options for putting another piece of plastic on their Glock. Note that they ignore the AOW definition of a smooth bore. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't, I dunno... actually real.

 

[PT1911]

it becomes a handS gun!!!!

 

[kanook]

if they modify the handgun(they did) and didn't pay the tax for firearm modification for resale(they didn't) and yes they manufactured the said firearm just by changing the stock and adding the foregrip they have commited a crime.

 

[Owen Sparks]

The way to insure respect for the law is to make the law respectable.
Inaine regulations like this breed contempt.

 

[Hostile Amish]

I hate bureaucratic anti-gun activists. A pistol grip is not going to make a big difference in the hands of a determined killer. It might assist regular people in controlling their weapon to reduce recoil/etc. but in the hands of a killer it's not going to matter either way.

 

[Sam1911]

It might assist regular people in controlling their weapon to reduce recoil/etc.

The one positive point is that this particular regulation actually doesn't take anything particularly useful out of the hands of "regular" people. A forward vertical grip on a stockless pistol creates such an unbalanced, awkward hold that, with the exception of large, unweildy, sub-machinegun styled pistols, it is more of a hindrance to good shooting than a help.

Considering how fast and accurately a person can learn to fire and reload a semi-automatic conventional handgun, using a balanced isosceles stance, and how common it is these days to find autopistols with capacities of even 19+1 in a stock configuration, service-sized gun, you're much more effectively armed with one of them than, say, a semi-auto TPS, micro-Uzi, MP-5K clone, Mac-11/9, Tec-9 or whatever similar semi-subgun.

Of course, the rule is stupid, and should be abolished, but even if it were, it's not like vertical grips would be appearing on the sidearms of *anyone* who had spent much time learning to shoot.

But I digress...

-Sam