Bergie wrote:Okay so let me get my head around this-
Hypothetically speaking, if I built a totally awesome 300AAC upper with a 9" barrel, the Minnesota DNR says it qualifies as a legal deer-taking handgun in areas south of the rifle/shotgun border. And although it hypothetically has a buffer tube, (totally cool folding adapter) and brace, the DNR still says it's a pistol.
Now comes the ATF....hypothetically since I paired that upper with a standard AR lower complete with the previously-mentioned std buffer tube and BRACE, they say it's a short-barreled rifle (SBR) because of that brace and the fact that the barrel is -again hypothetically- 9".
So between now (let's say Jan 31) and May 31 I can either A) destroy the upper (bahahahaha!) -or- B) turn it in to the ATF (bahahahahaha!) -or- C) remove the brace and alter it so it can't be remounted and register the remaining ensemble with the ATF and they'll kindly waive the $200 registration fee (uh huh) -or- D) take off the 9" barrel and put on a 16" barrel but I can keep the brace on it because according to them, it has enough surface area to shoot from the shoulder....and the only way one can now own a brace is if it's on a "rifle".
BUT- now the DNR will say I no longer have a pistol, but now it's a rifle. [head starting to hurt]
I suspect the DNR allowed them because they thought they would loose the argument and now they know they will not so....