SBR QUESTION

[PappyM3]

Sure, but by that logic, if you melt down a shotgun, forge a new receiver from the material, and build a SBS from it, it was "made from a shotgun", and therefore a "sawed-off shotgun"

Well sure, if anybody did that.

 

[milktree]

Well sure, if anybody did that.

It was absolutely a Reductio Ad Absurdum assertion, but it illustrates the point that at some point you can't hold someone responsible for the history of something if they could not have known that history.

 

[PappyM3]

It was absolutely a Reductio Ad Absurdum assertion, but it illustrates the point that at some point you can't hold someone responsible for the history of something if they could not have known that history.

Yeah, but what I’m talking about is not a new concept. It is the same principle as a rifle not being able to become a pistol. Different because of the state vs fed laws, but same logic. Nothing in federal law says that a rifle can’t become a pistol, but, here we are.

 

[drgrant]

Yeah, but what I’m talking about is not a new concept. It is the same principle as a rifle not being able to become a pistol. Different because of the state vs fed laws, but same principle. Nothing in federal law says that a rifle can’t become a pistol, but, here we are.

It's not the same because the feds have actually delineated this stuff in approval letters and case law. In MA the same kind of sphere of influence, is deafening silence.

 

[milktree]

Yeah, but what I’m talking about is not a new concept. It is the same principle as a rifle not being able to become a pistol. Different because of the state vs fed laws, but same logic. Nothing in federal law says that a rifle can’t become a pistol, but, here we are.

The huge/critical difference is that federal law recognizes that a frame or receiver exists as a regulated thing that has properties.

Mass. law doesn't. When a shotgun gets receiverized (or "firearm", or rifle) it ceases to exist as far as Mass. law is concerned. Strictly speaking, stripped lowers and frames to handguns and rifle receivers are 100% unregulated by Mass. law.

What the feds think is irrelevant in this context.

When the shotgun receiver gets built up into an SBS, as far as Mass. is concerned it was made from nothing, because the previous parts are undefined.