AR Pistol

[Dolomite_supafly]

It is still illegal to carry a long gun on your person with ammunition present. An SBR would fall under that as well.

[Oh Shoot]

It is still illegal to carry a long gun on your person with ammunition present. An SBR would fall under that as well.

 

Yep, that's the one.

 

- OS

[maroonandwhite]

So if I were building a stripped lower into a pistol the first time would using a buffer tube that can accept a stock make it a rifle or would that only happen once I install a stock. I would rather not buy a pistol tube unless I just have to. I plan to do as Dolomite suggested and take some good photos with some type of info in the background showing the date. Just to show I actually built it as a pistol.

 

I guess buffer tubes are cheap enough though so I may just err on the side of caution.

[Dolomite_supafly]

It is the stock, not the tube type, that determines what it is. You can use a standard carbine buffer tube to build a pistol. Just be mindful that if you have your carbine buffer equipped pistol and a stock together with no other weapon for the stock to be used on you might get in some trouble. That is don't have your pistol and the stock in a bag or your vehicle with nothing else.

[maroonandwhite]

It is the stock, not the tube type, that determines what it is. You can use a standard carbine buffer tube to build a pistol. Just be mindful that if you have your carbine buffer equipped pistol and a stock together with no other weapon for the stock to be used on you might get in some trouble. That is don't have your pistol and the stock in a bag or your vehicle with nothing else.

Cool. That's how I understood it. Just wanted to make sure. Hopefully my SBR won't be too far away. I will do my trust after I get the rifle built followed by the SBR. Suppressor will come last.

[MemHeli]

No tax stamp, it's in the normal handgun classification.

 

Federally, a pistol must be made from a receiver (lower in case of AR) that was not initially configured as a rifle. Once it is a pistol, it can also be made into a rifle and go back and forth between pistol and rifle. It's a "dedicated" pistol while it is in pistol configuration, but could also be a "dedicated" rifle while in legal rifle configuration. :)

 

In some states all handguns must be registered, and I have no idea whether they must stay handguns or not under those various state laws, but TN of course has none of that sort of thing. The only quirk we have is that there is a definition of "handgun" as having a barrel under 12". Not that having one with a + 12" barrel is illegal, and TN code does not say what it becomes, only that I suppose it would not technically be legit to carry on person with an HCP.

 

- OS

 

Digging up bones here I know...just noting that I've referenced this for a few friends recently.   Sticky maybe?