Marking a lower "pistol" is just to deprive you of your money. It has no legal bearing whatsoever.
It should be transferred to you as a "receiver" or "other", as that is the correct way. However, legally, how the receiver is transferred also has no bearing on what you build with it. The store can mark it "rifle", and you can take it home and build a pistol with it, and you are fully legal.
Once it has been built into a rifle, it cannot legally be converted into a pistol. This requires BOTH a stock, and a barreled upper containing a 16" or longer barrel. If you put a pistol buffer and an upper with a 16" or longer barrel on it, it not a rifle. If you put a stock on it, but have not put a barreled upper on it, it is still a "receiver".
Yes, that means that you can buy a stocked lower, and as long as it's never had a barreled upper on it, it is just a "receiver". You can remove the stock and build a pistol with it.
How would atf test this? They contact the manufacturer, give them the serial #, and ask how they assembled it, and how did it leave their possession. If it left as any of the above, it was a "receiver", plain and simple.
I have it explained this way by two atf senior investigators, and an atf attorney.
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