Uberti 1873 revolving carbine stock, cont'd
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That gun is a modern .45 Colt rifle, requiring a 4473. You can not convert it into a handgun, including a detachable stock, without violating federal law.
What you say is true, but its a question of semantics.
To be clear here, a handgun is NOT just any gun with a pistol grip and no stock. If that were the case, then THIS would be a "handgun".
As you know, an ordinary shotgun with a pistol grip is not a pistol and you can legally remove and replace a stock on this shotgun all day long.
Per the law, if a gun has an overall length of 26" or more, and a rifled barrel of 16" or more, its considered a rifle.
In the case of this Uberti revolving carbine, the barrel is 18" long, more than meeting the minimum legal barrel length criteria. So long as the fixed remainder of the gun extends at least 8" past the barrel for an overall length of 26" or more, its a legal rifle, regardless of whether or not it has a stock.
Looking at the numbers, the overall gun length is 34" and we have 18" from the muzzle to the front of the cylinder. By subtraction, so long as you've got 8" of stock/grip/frame extending beyond the cylinder gap, you're good to go.
You'd have to break out a measuring stick to be sure, but by eye, I think that 8" probably puts you pretty close to where the thin pistol grip part of the stock meets the fatter buttstock. A cut at the right spot there would be legal.
If you were to simply remove the stock and replace it with an ordinary pistol grip, that would NOT be enough length to maintain the legal requirement.
Now, if you were to do this ILLEGAL thing, the gun would sort of resemble this LEGAL Uberti Buntline gun, and a casual observer might not know the difference:
Needless to say, taking legal chances like this is stupid. Don't do it. If you want a buntline, trade your carbine for one (or just buy one).
If you absolutely had to, you could swap out the barrel for a longer one, or weld on a permanent barrel extension to buy you a few more inches of overall length. . .but why?
That gun is a modern .45 Colt rifle, requiring a 4473. You can not convert it into a handgun, including a detachable stock, without violating federal law.
What you say is true, but its a question of semantics.
To be clear here, a handgun is NOT just any gun with a pistol grip and no stock. If that were the case, then THIS would be a "handgun".
As you know, an ordinary shotgun with a pistol grip is not a pistol and you can legally remove and replace a stock on this shotgun all day long.
Per the law, if a gun has an overall length of 26" or more, and a rifled barrel of 16" or more, its considered a rifle.
In the case of this Uberti revolving carbine, the barrel is 18" long, more than meeting the minimum legal barrel length criteria. So long as the fixed remainder of the gun extends at least 8" past the barrel for an overall length of 26" or more, its a legal rifle, regardless of whether or not it has a stock.
Looking at the numbers, the overall gun length is 34" and we have 18" from the muzzle to the front of the cylinder. By subtraction, so long as you've got 8" of stock/grip/frame extending beyond the cylinder gap, you're good to go.
You'd have to break out a measuring stick to be sure, but by eye, I think that 8" probably puts you pretty close to where the thin pistol grip part of the stock meets the fatter buttstock. A cut at the right spot there would be legal.
If you were to simply remove the stock and replace it with an ordinary pistol grip, that would NOT be enough length to maintain the legal requirement.
Now, if you were to do this ILLEGAL thing, the gun would sort of resemble this LEGAL Uberti Buntline gun, and a casual observer might not know the difference:
Needless to say, taking legal chances like this is stupid. Don't do it. If you want a buntline, trade your carbine for one (or just buy one).
If you absolutely had to, you could swap out the barrel for a longer one, or weld on a permanent barrel extension to buy you a few more inches of overall length. . .but why?
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