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  • candcallen

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    I have seen them listed as other but most put receiver. Either is ok to make a pistol from.
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    Charlie

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    So your FFL should list it as an other and then it's up to the buyer as to what you do with it. If you make it a rifle you cannot later convert it to a pistol but if you make it a pistol you can convert it to a rifle. Correct?
     

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    So your FFL should list it as an other and then it's up to the buyer as to what you do with it. If you make it a rifle you cannot later convert it to a pistol but if you make it a pistol you can convert it to a rifle. Correct?
    Correct.
     

    Renegade

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    Legally speaking, can I buy a complete lower, with a stock, and then replace the stock with a brace and stick an upper with a 10.5" barrel on top?

    Yes you can do this, assuming the lower never had an upper attached to it.

    eta

    above is incorrect, I misread OP. Once the stock is on, it can only become a rifle or shotgun. Oddly, the best ATF explanation is on the 4473:

    If a frame or receiver can only be made into a long gun (rifle or shotgun), it is still a frame or receiver not a handgun or long gun.
     
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    candcallen

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    What's sad is the worst place to get the correct info is inside a gun store. It's like waiting till the lights come on in a bar after last call and hoping you get lucky without something falling off later.
     

    TheMailMan

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    The last lower I bought from my FFL and friend was transferred as an "other". It was up to me as to what I built. "He said" that if I make it into a rifle I cannot later make it into a pistol. If I make into a pistol I can later make into a rifle. Anyone have different info on that?

    Nope.
     
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