amlevin
Regular Member
I guess I could have been more clear - - IAAL so it happens.
So does that mean you have to sit in the corner wearing the "hat"?
I guess I could have been more clear - - IAAL so it happens.
I did find a BATF letter about having spare M16 parts for a legally owned M16 while owning an AR-15 could be considered having an illegal machine gun - http://www.titleii.com/bardwell/atf_letter90.txt Same parts ownership rules would apply to SBR parts.
The rules for SBRs seem to apply only to the short barreled uppers and not the other parts that would classify something as a rifle per the ATF. However, I did find this portion interesting:
"An individual possessing more than one short (less than 16 inches)
barreled upper receiver for a registered AR15 machinegun along with
one or more semiautomatic AR15 rifles would have under their
possession of control an unregistered short barreled rifle, a
violation of the NFA."
I wonder if the same applies to a semiautomatic AR15, since it would appear that the ATF is saying that owning a short barreled upper (like if you're building a pistol) means you're then in possession of an SBR if you happen to own other minimum length AR15 rifles.
So does that mean you have to sit in the corner wearing the "hat"?
Why you wouldn't be suggesting that someone might own a "pistol" and a "rifle" and then swap them around as they wanted, would you? Why that would just downright be breaking the rules. Nobody would do that, would they?
That's why they call it "practicing law" - - someday we may get it right!