Moving to Cali with an AR question

[jamesob]

I'm sure this has been asked several times, but here we go again. I am moving to Cali from AZ soon and am the proud owner of a bushmaster Varminter. I'm sure this is classified as an assault rifle and wanted to know if changing to the U-15 stock would make me legal. This I'm guessing will let me keep the removable mag. I love this gun and don't want to have to leave it behind. Please help.
Thanks
Arizonamaddy

i have a question for you. why on earth are you moving here? i looked at a house in arizona back in june. yeah i know june, but the wife wanted to see how hot i got there.

[aplinker]

Two issues in there... We'll assume (for the sake of not dealing with SBRs) we're only in CA and we're dealing with "normal" firearms.

You can NEVER put a barrel shorter than 16" or have an OAL less than 30" with a semiautomatic centerfire rifle. That's a given.

Now, in order to be able to have it in a pistol configuration, it could never have been sold as a rifle. Anything that is classified as a rifle must never break those rules above.

However, if you bought a VIRGIN receiver and bought it as a pistol, it is then a pistol receiver. With a pistol you can ABSOLUTELY have a stock, IF you maintain the 16" barrel and 30" OAL (and assuming you don't break any assault weapons issues).

You could also have that pistol in a pistol configuration (short being an AW).

You can switch back and forth at will. Having it registered as a pistol allows you to have it in the pistol configuration. You can ONLY do this on a receiver that was purchased as a pistol.

My suggestion was, since he has to buy the receiver anyways, buy it as a pistol (might be $25 more), as this will allow him more options in the future.

Hope that's clear now.

This isn't the 'end all be all' of proof, just couldn't stand to look anymore.

I was under the impression that if you had a virgin lower, or "pistol" lower, you could never assemble it as a rifle(if you wanted to make it a pistol someday). I know I've read it here before, several times...pistol to rifle = OK, rifle to pistol = chrome bracelets.

If I'm wrong, by all means, let me know. But I'm pretty darn sure on this one

[JagerTroop]

Hope that's clear now.

Crystal

I just want to be 1000% sure when it comes to things like this. I'd rather beat this to death, than be phoning in my posts, 3rd person from a California Correctional Facility