AR PISTOL

[SOCOgunguy]

Can CA LEOS still DROS a stripped lower as an Off-Roster Pistol?

[P5Ret]

Since all AW laws apply, what's the point? And under the new laws it couldn't be built as an AW anyway.

[Quiet]

Can CA LEOS still DROS a stripped lower as an Off-Roster Pistol?

Yes.

However, LEOs are only exempt for acquiring from the CA unsafe handgun laws.

Therefore, any receiver made into a handgun by a LEO needs to comply with CA unsafe handgun, assault weapons, and SBR/SBS laws.

In order to be CA legal...
The handgun needs to be made into a dimensionally compliant bolt-action single-shot pistol or a dimensionally compliant break-top/open single-shot pistol.

Because the firearm can never had been semi-auto prior to creation, you will most likely need to build your own upper, instead of buying an existing upper and modifying it. This is because existing uppers are typically test fired by the manufacturer as a semi-auto.

In addition to installing a non-detachable 0 round mag/sled (a 0 round mag/sled that can not be removed without disassembling the firearm's action or a permanently attached 0 round mag/sled or a solid magazine well will be needed to comply with this requirement), the following must be done depending on the type of upper...

If the AR style pistol normally operates via direct impingement, then:
1. Do not install a gas tube.
2. Do not install a gas block or plug the gas block.
This makes it a straight pull bolt-action single-shot.

If the AR style pistol normally operates via gas-piston, then:
1. Do not install a gas piston.
2. Do not install a gas block or plug the gas block.
This makes it a straight pull bolt-action single-shot.

If the AR style pistol normally operates via blowback, then:
1. Install a dowel in the buffer tube, which prevents the buffer from moving.
This makes it a break-top/open single-shot.

The upper will also need a minimum 6" barrel length and the handgun will need a minimum 10.5" overall length.

[r6guy85]

Quite are you sure that set up applies to law enforcement officer who dros a stripped lower as a pistol. I heard different that bolt action single shot/ break top single shot did not apply to LEO building an ar pistol prior 2017.