I’ll never do an SBR again, at least not on a MSR platform. The stability offered by the current crop of braces is more than adequate for the ranges a barrel that short is useful.
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My best buddy just E filed his braced AR pistol and got it back in like 11 days. Shot it with a stock for the first time yesterday and would never go back to a brace. From a shooting perspective it is night and day better with the stock.
If ATF bones us later this year, then I'll probably do it. With no suppressors in IL, I just haven't seen the need to SBR anything. If it was free, sure. Just not sure it's worth $200 for the "upgrade". The SBA3/A4 is suitable for my needs. No they're not stocks, but they're a heck of a lot better than a buffer tube with foam on it. Plus I get the benefit of being able to keep it loaded in the truck being as it's still a pistol, which I couldn't do if it was SBR'ed.
Hmmm. I was under the impression that if a firearm started as a pistol, when it had a brace on it (or a bare RE), then it was still a pistol, even if registered as an SBR.
That was pretty much my plan… to be able to put a stock on a sub-16” barrel weapon (because SBR’d), but still use as a pistol for carry and automobile purposes when no stock was attached.
Can anyone here cite a reference saying that the above is not possible?
I could be wrong, and I’d certainly like to know if I am. But I thought that an SBR is, as the name clearly states, a Short Barreled Rifle and the permissions/restrictions of a pistol no longer apply. Now you go by rifle rules.