TC Contender pistol/ rifle swap

[Northwest Cajun]

Hi Guys,
I have an old contender pistol with 10".22LR, 14".223 and 10" 44 mag barrels.
I'm looking at getting a, 16" 18" or 22" rifle barrel in .22 LR with a youth carbine rifle stock for my 7 year old to start learning how to shoot. I've heard that there was a legal question with making a pistol into a rifle or was it the other way, OR is it just BS?
any help would be greatly appreicated.


Also, is the pistol grip easy to remove?


Cajun

 

[Badger Arms]

So long as you have a pistol-registered frame (that is, it left the factory as a pistol frame and not as part of a Contender Rifle) you may assemble it as a rifle. Please make sure you remove the barrel before you put the stock on or you will have "Made an NFA firearm." Now then, if you have a Contender Carbine and you configure it into a pistol, you have just committed a felony. By the letter of the law, once you make the gun into a rifle and then convert it back, you have also committed a felony. The applicable law restricts:

a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length

Still, the BATF doesn't prosecute if you bought the weapon as a pistol and convert it back and forth. The John Kerry administration might look differently on the matter.

 

[Northwest Cajun]

Thanks,
That's what I've got and that's what I'm going to do.
Now the question....Did Contender make 16" 22LR Barrels?

Cajun

 

[JBP]

You can get it from T/C's Custom Shop (aka Fox Ridge Outfitters) or E. Arthur Brown.