Quote Originally Posted by shmelton View Post
Look at the AR forums on this subject. I may be completely wrong, but I was under the impression you could take a rifle lower and convert it to a pistol legally. But, I am also under the impression that once converted to a pistol you can't convert back to a rifle legally. Then again how would the govt know?
So why would the same apply to a bolt gun, if my interpretation is right?

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I read a ruling from the atf 2011-14 or something like that and it's the other way around. you can turn a pistol into a rifle and back as long as in the pistol configuration there is no stock with the pistol barrel, and when in rifle configuration the oal is 26+ and barrel 16+.

I now know I cannot convert from a rifle to a pistol....however what I'm wanting to build would be considered a "firearm" (over 26" oal, and 16" barrel) and that's were the law get's gray