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Originally Posted by FEDUPWBS
M24 is not the hurt on that one. You need to contact Oaklander to have a trust setup so you can do NFA stuff. BTW as far as the tax stamp goes its only $5!.
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Not quite. It's $5 to transfer an AOW but still $200 to manufacturer one. So if you are going the trust route to fill out paperwork so you can add a pistol grip to the front of your pistol it will still cost you $200 for the tax stamp. Now if you were buying a completed pistol from a SOT then it would cost you just $5 to transfer it because they already paid the proper taxes when they manufactured it.
As for the AR pistols, there is no law that says a pistol HAS to stay in the configuration you bought it in. So in order to legally buy an AR pistol it has to be a complete single shot only pistol at the time of transfer. Once it is in your posession, it is your responsability to keep it configured in a way that is legal. Case in point, you can't go and put a threaded barrel on your 1911 as you would have created an AW. However, you can add a threaded barrel if you fix the magazine or permanently attach something to the threads. So once you take posession of the AR pistol you can do whatever you want to it, including fixing a 10 round magazine in place, as long as it doesn't break the law.
So yes they are legal. Yes the upper CAN be modified. They basically follow the same rules as OLL rifles except the lengths and there is no such thing as a featureless pistol build.