Problem with PPT of Mare's Leg Pistol

[pinger]

Tried to do a PPT of a Henry Mare's Leg and two FFls declined to handle it. When I purchased this gun as a PPT about 3 years ago here in California it was dros'd as a pistol. On Henry's website, Mare's Legs are classified as lever action pistols. This should not fall under National Firearms Act as a short barreled rifle because it was never manufactured or sold as a rifle. It came from the factory as a pistol and has always been registered as a pistol. Is this interpretation of the law now common to all FFLs in California?

[TKM]

Any chance of going back to the original FFL?

[pinger]

I went to the buyers local area. It would be harder for him to come up two times but that might be what it would take if he wants it bad enough.

[shootsocal_dave]

It is a pistol. Not a rifle. Don’t know why that’s hard to Google things. Some shops just don’t know things outside the box.

[Quiet]

Henry Mare's Leg = CA DROS as "pistol, lever-action".

[I Swan]

I've encountered this before too. But being it's a PPT it also may be just a way to weasel out of having to do it. On guns like that it's best to check to see if the FFL is willing to do it before extensive travel or time is wasted.

[Milsurp1]

Does the FFL understand that it never had a shoulder stock?