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Originally Posted by Tegyrius
Al - citation? My reading of BATFE regs and rulings suggests that placing a formerly pistol-configured weapon on the NFA registry as an SBR (e.g. Form 1 registration of an AR or SIG 556 pistol) makes it legally a rifle, not a pistol, because the Form 1 records the act of "manufacturing" the SBR. It may be possible to return it to legal "pistol" status by (1) removing it from the registry and (2) removing the stock, but I wouldn't want to gamble on that.
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Its a little fuzzy, but the way it worked in the cases I know of falls under the rule in Michigan that any rifle that has an overall length under 30" has to be registered locally as a pistol. Even though its a rifle. The Feds consider anything under 26" as a pistol - though as you say, once you get into the SBR realm things get a little weird. If I was to do it, I would stick with a foreward grip over a stock, but even that has to be done under the SBR rules. Don't know if you can find a way to fit it under the AOW catagory - somehow I doubt it. As it stands, in this occasion, yes, the Feds say Rifle. And Yes, the locals say Pistol. So.... a mess. Falls into who you know and who you are unless something goes really sideways.
Really, once you start getting into the NFA realm, you really have to have a legal eagle on your side sorting through the morass of various laws: it isn't something you can go alone safely in my opinion.