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I need to clarify that I did not send that letter in but found it online.
The TC Contenders and Encores are not applicable in this instance because that case was ONLY about whether the possession of the parts meant intent to assemble a SBR and in no part of the ruling did it address assembling it into a rifle then a pistol again later. This aspect has never been taken to court to be proven legal but as the law reads now it is not legal. In the instance of NFA weapons just because it hasn't been questioned does not automatically make it legal. An example of this is the recent updated understanding about the serialized portion of suppressors, people wanted to believe that they could do whatever they wanted to with them even though the law and precedent already indicated otherwise.
Next point. Since there seems to be confusion about the letter of the law:
RCW 9.41.010 defines:
Rifle: "Rifle" means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
Short-barreled rifle: "Short-barreled rifle" means a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length and any weapon made from a rifle by any means of modification if such modified weapon has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches.
Pistol as: ""Pistol" means any firearm with a barrel less than sixteen inches in length, or is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand."
And Firearm as: ""Firearm" means a weapon or device from which a projectile or projectiles may be fired by an explosive such as gunpowder."
So again, in Washington state law once what was purchased as a "firearm" the bare receiver has been made into a "Rifle", it can only be a weapon made from a rifle or a SBR whether the shoulder stock is attached or not. A Short barreled rifle does not need to have a shoulder stock after it has had one put on the receiver is a SBR until it is removed from the NFA Registry even if completed in a pistol configuration.
Can anyone point to any place where Washington state law requires a INDIVIDUAL to register the manufacture or transfer of a pistol? Dealers yes for the transfer, but a individual purchasing a bare receiver is purchasing what is defined as a "Firearm" and no pistol registration is required, the individual then changes the serialized portion of the "Firearm" to a "Pistol" by how he assembles it and it remains a pistol until the serialized portion is assembled as a "Rifle" at which point when completed in another configuration it is:"weapon made from a rifle by any means of modification if such modified weapon has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches." which is defined as a Short Barreled Rifle
Can ANYONE else CITE law instead of opinion, everyone who's trying to discredit what I've shown from the the letter of the law has not cited anything just provided their opinion. Someone please show REAL proof.