Shouldering pistol braces

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I have a pistol now through a trade. The gun has a completely unusable PSA brace on it, so I was "made" was a pistol, and I am not "remaking" it as an SBR until I get a stamp. No issue with getting an SBR stamp, other than being required to in general. I'll get one before too long.

In the meantime, can I shoot it shouldered? It seems as though it may be that case that I legally can because of the intent of the weapon being a pistol, and I have not done anything physically to show any other intent; and I have not "remade" the gun.

I don't know how anyone could shoot well at all with the damn brace, and my forearm won't fit in it in the first place.
 
Thanks, that’s what I thought are reading up on it, but wasn’t sure. Legal dialogue is not my area of expertise.

This pistol is not yet an NFA item. Not sure if it matter labor not, up until the time I get the stamp and make it one.
 
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This pistol is not yet and NFA item. Not sure if it matter labor not, up until the time I get the stamp and make it one.
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And the stamp itself doesn't make it one.

It's not an NFA item unless configured as such.
 
It’s useless as a brace, and not a great not-a-stock, but legal to concealed carry in NC (under a jacket on the front passenger seat for example). An SBR is not ever legal for concealed carry, unless you are in the secret service or something. Also, NFA items require paperwork when you move, or if you travel with them to another state. Neither may matter for why you want it but just so you know. AFAIK the only other practical differences between the pistol and SBR are pistol/long gun legal diffs (buyer needs permit or CCH for pistol example), and that you cannot put a vertical foregrip on the pistol.
 
Any way to verify the pistol was purchased as a pistol and not as a a rifle and the stock swapped out for the brace?
 
Another question:

Is it legal to put a pistol buffer tube and brace on what was originally sold as a rifle lower? I understand that is “making or remaking”, but if the parameters of an AR pistol are applied, is that sufficient and legal?

I should probably just stick to the side-by-side doubles I work on.
 
type44 said:
Another question:

Is it legal to put a pistol buffer tube and brace on what was originally sold as a rifle lower? I understand that is “making or remaking”, but if the parameters of an AR pistol are applied, is that sufficient and legal?

I should probably just stick to the side-by-side doubles I work on.
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Was an upper ever put on it while the stock was present? If so, you can't make it into a pistol.

There's not really such think as a "rifle lower". There are lowers, which are stripped or complete...or anywhere in between. But all of them are still Other Firearms. You can build a pistol from one with a stock, or build a rifle from one without a stock. As long as it never had an upper, it was never a rifle.
 
Pretty sure that this lower had a rifle upper on it originally. Back when it was new, pistols weren't really the thing.
 
type44 said:
Pretty sure that this lower had a rifle upper on it originally. Back when it was new, pistols weren't really the thing.
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Then the answer is you cannot make it a SBRifle (or put a pistol upper on it) without a stamp. Buy a $39 Anderson lower and build yourself a pistol lower.
 
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