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**44 AMP** · October 1, 2010, 10:53 AM

I'm not a laywer, so my advice is worth what you pay for it, but to me, the obvious answer is simply not to have the short barrel rifle in your posession at any time.

Send only the upper to the smith, let him do the work, and send it back to you. Without you having the parts needed to make a SBR in your posession, how can you be breaking the law?

Shorter than legal rifle length uppers, by themselves are simply parts. You can own an 11" barrel upper without any license, you can have it mailed directly to you. ITs just a few parts. BUT, if you have any lower receiver to put it on, then you are in posession of an SBR (assembled or not), and are violating the law, without first getting BATF approval.

October 1, 2010, 10:53 AM	#2
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 28,833	I'm not a laywer, so my advice is worth what you pay for it, but to me, the obvious answer is simply not to have the short barrel rifle in your posession at any time. Send only the upper to the smith, let him do the work, and send it back to you. Without you having the parts needed to make a SBR in your posession, how can you be breaking the law? Shorter than legal rifle length uppers, by themselves are simply parts. You can own an 11" barrel upper without any license, you can have it mailed directly to you. ITs just a few parts. BUT, if you have any lower receiver to put it on, then you are in posession of an SBR (assembled or not), and are violating the law, without first getting BATF approval. __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.