Thanks for the information.
I defer to your letters vs. my telephone conversation to NFA in 2006 and stand corrected.
Regards.
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I'd personally just register it for the shortest barrel you'll run on it. Then run anything else you want.
Unless you're permanently changing the barrel length or caliber I wouldn't bother bugging the feds about it.
That wouldn't even pass the common sense test. Why would a guy legally build one SBR and risk prosecution for doing an SBR illegally? Assuming the guy is sane, he wouldn't.
Take me for example. I have two SBRs and four non sbrs. Why would I throw an extra upper on a Title 1 weapon when I could just pop it on a legal lower? So common sense would dictate that an extra upper would only be used on a registered lower.
Point taken! I remember watching a show about how an agent infiltrated the Monguls biker gang. He spent months and months earning a full patch in the gang and finally came across one machine pistol at a well to do member of the gang who lived in Scottsdale, AZ.
Of course the gang was into the usual drugs and fighting and shit. But I though what a ****ing waste of resources. They hit the gang and most of the members are already walking free now. It just seemed like so much effort for such little result.
The NFA was enacted in 1934 to create a hurdle and an easy pinch (due to non-compliance) for gangsters/bootleggers who were using machineguns, sawed-off shotguns, etc. with some regularity.
The rationale behind having extra short uppers, extra machinegun parts sufficient to make another machinegun, etc. is that you are effectively and illegally evading the tax and registration by having all the parts to make another one.
I don't disagree, but it seems to pass the "Black and White" test of what is written. It sure seems from the text I copied over that you can't own SBRs and non-SBR, which does seem wrong.
I can only assume that in the text:
4. Can you have several short barrel uppers (less than 16 inches)
for the registered AR and still own semi-auto AR's?
The definition of a firearm in section 5845 of the NFA includes a
rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length.
An individual possessing more than one short (less than 16 inches)
barreled upper receiver for a registered AR15 machinegun along with
one or more semiautomatic AR15 rifles would have under their
possession of control an unregistered short barreled rifle, a
violation of the NFA.
They meant to say that once you have and SBR lower, that is the only lower that can have <16in uppers on it. Dang, that is not clear. I assume he means that if you put the short uppers on the standard lowers, you are in violation. I bet when you get this guy in court he gives direct yes and no answers :D
I feel like you have to Seasame Street the questions.
If Grover has a registered SBR and a standard 18inch AR15 and The Cookie Monster gives him a 12 inch upper that he only puts on the SBR, how many SBRs does Grover have?
The NFA is the only tax that I'm glad is not indexed to inflation.