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If your friend was in a hurry to sell it, the better option would have been to return it to regular 'rifle' (Title 1) configuration and sell it that way. Then the new owner could file their own Form 1 to re-SBR. The money works out the same, and the buyer has to wait either way. But the actual transfer of the firearm can take place very quickly.
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I don't know how that would work, if it would. First, the rifle is registered as an SBR, no matter how long the barrel it currently wears, it is a registered SBR.
Second, the gun I am referring to is a semi auto M1 Thompson, not an AR, and so, replacing the short barrel with a longer one to turn it back into a regular rifle (if legally possible??) is not a trivial matter of a couple of push pins and a new upper".
As to "silencers", they are a different matter than pistol braces in one sense, but similar in others. The crime is the "intent". If you "intend" to use the brace as a stock, then its a crime. If you intend to silence a firearm (without prior ATF approval) its a crime. The silencer need not work, in order for you to be prosecuted AND CONVICTED.
Tough to "fail" at putting a pistol brace on your shoulder. SO, in that respect they are different, but the same as to intent being the criminal act, NOT the actual use. A small technical matter, to most of us, but not to the courts.