hypothetical sbr question

[jester1614]

I am currently an arizona resident. I was thinking the other day and researching the SBR process here and came up with a question. per california law If I was to build a non banned by name Ar15 lower and register it as an sbr lower. Could I then bring it to cali to shoot if it has a california legal configuration (Upper, Bullet button.....) or is it immediately illegal in california if it is registered and tax stamped as an sbr?

[ke6guj]

I am currently an arizona resident. I was thinking the other day and researching the SBR process here and came up with a question. per california law If I was to build a non banned by name Ar15 lower and register it as an sbr lower. Could I then bring it to cali to shoot if it has a california legal configuration (Upper, Bullet button.....) or is it immediately illegal in california if it is registered and tax stamped as an sbr?

ATF would not have a problem with the bolded portion (they have written that if it is not in an SBR configuration that you can transport across state lines without needing a 5320.20, but we do not know if CA would says that a federally-registered SBR lower is going to be considered an SBR in CA, even if not currently configured as an SBR.

[jbooker9]

check the flowchart i believe there is a question for the barrel being less than 16. Pretty sure it would be considered an AW

[jester1614]

check the flowchart i believe there is a question for the barrel being less than 16. Pretty sure it would be considered an AW

I said in my OP that the question was, if brought into california in a california legal configuration ie upper length, bullet button........

I know it would be illegal to bring a sbr into CA

[jester1614]

ATF would not have a problem with the bolded portion (they have written that if it is not in an SBR configuration that you can transport across state lines without needing a 5320.20, but we do not know if CA would says that a federally-registered SBR lower is going to be considered an SBR in CA, even if not currently configured as an SBR.

Thank you.

That is what I am trying to figure out.

[JDay]

ATF would not have a problem with the bolded portion (they have written that if it is not in an SBR configuration that you can transport across state lines without needing a 5320.20, but we do not know if CA would says that a federally-registered SBR lower is going to be considered an SBR in CA, even if not currently configured as an SBR.

I doubt it would come back as an SBR if the serial was run in California.

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[ke6guj]

I doubt it would come back as an SBR if the serial was run in California.

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probably not. unless they had some reason to think it was an NFA gun, they'd have no reason to even think about calling the NFA branch to check on it. But perhaps they saw a copy of the SBR paperwork left in the gun case, or the additional name, city, state markings throw up a red flag.

99 times out of 100, hell probably 999 times out of a thousand, nobody'd even know that it was a registered SBR lower there, but is it worth the chance when you can set up another complete non-NFA lower for less than 2 bills?