Legal question??

[treedawg]

I've been given several different answers to this question, but I'm looking for a difinitive answer.

Question: if a person has a reciever registered in 9mm is it legal to convert the same reciever to .45 or .22 if it's not a permenant conversion?

Thanks,
TD

 

[UZI SBR AWC]

Yes. Kinda a gimmick with "registered in 9, 45 and 22", just like registering a HK sear registered in 3 calibers.

The serial # is the important part.

 

[KarlPMann]

100% correct. ATF likes the caliber to match, however, it isn't an etched in stone requirement. If you have a gun that is registered in a given caliber, you can send them an "addendum" to your form 1/4/etc. with the additional calibers the same way you can send them an in state change of address. Karl.

 

[r]

The H&K sears were generally registered in all three calibers because s&H, qualified, and Flemming, etc. were making sears to beat 5/19/86 and had no idea what sear would be going in what caliber weapon. I have an s&H sear which was originally registered on a form 2 as 9mm/223/308. Then it was married to a HK94 converted to mp-5 configs. the form 4 lists 9mm only, now.

 

[Paul556]

You can change it at the time of transfer. My M16 had the caliber listed as .223, 7.62X39, 9mm. You can also change any time if wish by letter to ATF. It is not the law.