AR pistol paperwork question

[msorwan1975]

to build a legal AR15 based pistol, is it just re-registering a lower like a pistol? or do you have to buy a new lower and do the initial paperwork as a pistol?

[marinville]

to build a legal AR15 based pistol, is it just re-registering a lower like a pistol? or do you have to buy a new lower and do the initial paperwork as a pistol?

Lowers aren't registered (exception: NFA items.) Any lower which has never been built as a rifle can be built as a pistol, no paperwork is required.

Furthermore, as I understand it: A lower that was originally built as a pistol can be re-built as a rifle and then later a pistol again, as long as it was first built as a pistol.

[ExFlyinguy]

No register in PA. Must build on a lower that did not begin it's life as a rifle.

Here is a great thread that is actually recently active: http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=26889

[R L Suehr]

to build a legal AR15 based pistol, is it just re-registering a lower like a pistol? or do you have to buy a new lower and do the initial paperwork as a pistol?

Lowers are transfered as "other" when you buy them. They aren't a pistol or rifle until you build them out and add the upper. That said, by letter of the law, I believe a rifle cannot become a pistol. It can only be SBR'd once it is a rifle. If you're starting from a bare stripped lower, you can build a pistol or rifle and once it's a pistol you could change it to a legal rifle or SBR, but not back again.

There's technically no "registration" in PA, so if you have a stripped lower you can build a pistol without doing anything else legally.

If I'm mistaken on anything, I'm sure someone else will correct me. Don't forget to post the obligatory gun porn pics when done.

[msorwan1975]

Thanks guys. thats the info I was looking for.

Got a new stripped upper to build on and going pistol route.

Why you may ask?

Because I can, LOL!

[Gun]

Thanks guys. thats the info I was looking for.

Got a new stripped upper to build on and going pistol route.

Why you may ask?

Because I can, LOL!

When an FFL found out I made a pistol from a stripped lower, and the lower wasn't transfer with the PSP form, he said I committed a felony.

So I turned in all my guns.

[rob m]

When an FFL found out I made a pistol from a stripped lower, and the lower wasn't transfer with the PSP form, he said I committed a felony.

So I turned in all my guns.

Time to find a new FFL and never do business with that one ever again

[SIGFAN86]

When an FFL found out I made a pistol from a stripped lower, and the lower wasn't transfer with the PSP form, he said I committed a felony.

So I turned in all my guns.

Did you proceed to laugh in his face and call him a beta male cuck?

[markshere2]

For extra added freedom with a huge pot of awesome sauce...

Buy an 80 percent lower and finish it yourself.

100% undocumented legal firearm.