The stamp is on the Lower. So I guess you could buy an SBR lower. Makes no sense though because you could register your own lower and have it in possession while the bureaucracy grinds slow.
"What would a $2,000 Geissele Super Duty do that a $500 PSA door buster on Black Friday couldn't do?" - Stopsign32v
The other advantage of starting with a stripped receiver, or any receiver sold as a "receiver" on the 4473, is that it didn't start life as a "rifle." Allowing you to go back and forth between pistol and rifle at will.
I have a registered lower that was initially built out as a pistol and, based on my interpretation of the ATF's rulings, allows me to reconfigure it as a pistol when traveling out of state. You enjoy no such advantage if you start off with an SBR lower.
Last edited by georgeib; 12-06-22 at 09:48.
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"What would a $2,000 Geissele Super Duty do that a $500 PSA door buster on Black Friday couldn't do?" - Stopsign32v
Yes, you have to fill out a 5320.20 and file it for approval. IF you maintain it in NFA format, that is. The ATF has already stated that if you remove the features that make an SBR an SBR, you can take it out of state without doing the form 20. The specific example they use is putting a 16" barrel on the SBR lower, thus converting from an SBR to a Title 1 firearm, and no longer necessitating the form 20 to cross state lines.
To me, it seems obvious that removing the stock from the receiver extension and replacing it with a pistol brace accomplishes the same thing. I mean, think about this for a sec. If you have an AR pistol, and you install a stock in place of the pistol brace, what have you just done? Create an (unregistered) SBR, right? So, clearly the ATF agrees that the presence of a stock creates a rifle, and if that is true then so is the converse.
Last edited by georgeib; 12-06-22 at 10:14.
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