Mare's Leg length legality question

[hunterb]

Mare's leg "pistol" carbines are 25" in length. 26 inches is the law for it to be a rifle, and thus legal to buy new in California.

My question is, why not put an appropriately longer butt pad or spacers on the Mre's leg to make it a "legal" rifle? It's would only have to add 1 inch on the current length.

Am I missing something?

Thank you for the advice!

[golfish]

My question is, why not put an appropriately longer butt pad or spacers on the Mre's leg to make it a "legal" rifle? !

No expert here but wouldn't the 12" barrel make it SBR if you added the extra inch?

I think they can be or have been registered as pistols here in Ca.

[hunterb]

No expert here but wouldn't the 12" barrel make it SBR if you added the extra inch?

I think they can be or have been registered as pistols here in Ca.

Aw crap, you're right. Needs a 16 inch barrel
DOh!

[Catch]

You could plug the tube and make it a single shot handgun... but they've thought of that too. Unfortunately they're far to dangerous for Californians.

[golfish]

Aw crap, you're right. Needs a 16 inch barrel
DOh!

Can you get one and register it as a handgun?
Probably have to be a PPT..
I've never read anything positive about em, not one single thing, but that doesn't mean they're not cool. The coolest guy ever rocked one in the late 50s.

[Red9]

We can't buy these new here in Cali? What? It's not a semi auto?
Is it a roster thing?

Sent from my moto g(7) using Tapatalk

[Quiet]

We can't buy these new here in Cali? What? It's not a semi auto?
Is it a roster thing?

Mare's Leg is an off-Roster manually operated (lever-action) repeating pistol.

Since it's off-Roster and has never been semi-auto, it could be modified to be SSE2 compliant.
However, since 11-2018, while in CA, it will need to remain configured as a SSE2 compliant handgun.
Because changing it from a manually operated single-shot to a manually operated repeater would be considered making an illegal unsafe handgun.

[bohoki]

you are suggesting making it an "other firearm" and i do not think california recognises "other firearm" in its system it has long guns and pistols