It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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I think many are very confused as to what the laws, rules, and regulations say and mean.
Once a registered SBR, always a registered SBR, NFA rules & regulation always apply, unless you unstamp it. Taking your SBR with 20" barrel across State lines, that's your risk, just hope nobody questions the firearm.
I asked this question years ago and IRAQGUNZ pointed me to the ATF regulations that specifically outlined this exact situation, stating, in short, that once you remove the features that make it an NFA item, it no longer falls under the purview of the ATF. You still have a registered lower, but not an NFA item as configured. Travel freely.
Furthermore, no one would have any reasonable cause to examine a 20" rifle to the point of questioning whether it is on the NFA registry unless the person holding it said something to the contrary.
In any case, for anyone reading this thread who has questions... it is published somewhere on the ATF website. I apologize for not digging it up, I just don't have the time. I just wanted people to know it's there somewhere and you can look it up for yourself. It didn't seem complicated to me.
It's not a matter of being questioned. What if you are in an incident, and investigating starts. Finding out your registered serial # is a NFA item is gonna cause you some grief, even if you re-configured your SBR with 20" bbl and thought that was ok to travel around as if it's no longer a NFA SBR item.
ATF is a big trap. Most of their stuff is written in "as configured" view. But then they'll trap you by saying "once NFA item, always NFA item, unless you un-stamp it".
I not arguing for such BS compliance, I just pointing out that when the crap in the BS pot boils down you're gonna be in a bad position. Recall that ATF on a daily basis releases statements that included "all our previously decisions, determinations, and letters have been recinded".
Last edited by DwayneZ; 01-25-23 at 09:35.
I'd personally pick a non-registered set up if I was to have some reason to travel out of state. It's just a much easier replacement if for some reason the gun was held because I had to use it.
Currently, the ATF angle doesn't worry me in the slightest. But things can get worse. Rigged elections? Corrupt FBI? A tyrannical agency isn't that unrealistic anymore.
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