Sorry if this has been posted... It's new to me:

You can now make a rifle from your Pistol and switch back and forth and be WITHIN the law!

http://www.atf.gov/regulations...tf-ruling-2011-4.pdf

Collins

yes, it has always been legal to the best of my knowledge.

I'll show some pics of my AR-pistol in 300 BLK one of these days. Hopefully suppressed at full-auto.

Ugghhh not this again... No it hasn't, if it was the BATFE would not have had the new ruling in July.

The batf was not folowing the court ruling that allowed this from the 90's.

They just brought themselfs in line with what the court said was legal.

The good thing about this ruling is it clears up the muddied waters. There were many different thoughts as to whether it was legal or not in the past and this clarifies it.

There were problems caused by the ATF because of Contender barrels and rifle stocks. The pistol to carbine kits have been legal. The letter clarifies the existing laws. For past kits there have been several for 1911's and Glocks on the market. The newest entry was the Neos Carbine kit which has generated the interest and the new letter.

As an aside to this go back to the AR=7 and Explorer II fom Charter Arms, the Explorer (pistol) barrel had to be made so it could not fit the rifle. It has reference notches at 12 nad 6 o'clock the rifle barrel is notched at 12 o'clock and will fit both. No maximum barrel length for a pistol but a minimum for a rifle. Also pertanent to this was custom bolt pistols like the XP-100 or Charger, recievers had to leave the factory designated as pistol because making a rifle into a pistol is not legal. Making a pistol into a rifle is.

The ATF "ruling" references existing laws and regulations that have not changed.

So, if I have an old TC, a 12" barrel, a buttstock and an 18" barrel, all put away in a nice little case, and would never have any intention of using the buttstock with the 12" barrel, I am still in violation of the law because i have everything available in close proximity to create an NFA short rifle?

All this tells me is that if I have a receiver that takes a stock I better not have a barrel less than 16" in my immediate posession/location/control, and that only if the reciever adds 10"...

What, I don't even...