Double checking on length...

[Stone]

Just to verify, there is no legal way to build a new CA legal center-fire rifle that is less than 30 inches in its shortest configuration...right?

[tomd1584]

Unless you use one of those short pistol receiver extensions, it's damn near impossible. You'll be fine.

[dieselpower]

A semiautomatic, centerfire rifle that has an overall length of less than 30 inches.

make it a bolt action with no gas system, or a single shot with a zero round magazine and you can go as low as 26"

[Stone]

make it a bolt action with no gas system, or a single shot with a zero round magazine and you can go as low as 26"

Thanks for the ideas. I actually kind of like the sound of that zero round magazine option. I could pull that off by using a bullet button to permanently affix a fully blocked up magazine making it a single shot. Then when I move out of state, eg for my yearly hunting trip, the rifle could be converted back to semi-auto (with the proper tool).

[tomd1584]

make it a bolt action with no gas system, or a single shot with a zero round magazine and you can go as low as 26"

but even with a CAR stock and a 16" barrel, you'd only get to like 28-29" maaaybbbeee....

[cmace22]

but even with a CAR stock and a 16" barrel, you'd only get to like 28-29" maaaybbbeee....

Maybe its an AK.

[tomd1584]

Maybe its an AK.

ahhhh....Somehow i thought i read AR-rifle. thats what i get posting from my blackberry when i'm half- asleep.

[CHS]

Just to verify, there is no legal way to build a new CA legal center-fire rifle that is less than 30 inches in its shortest configuration...right?

Unless it's semi-auto, the minimum is only 26".