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alanint · 03-04-2011, 05:50 PM

To clarify the stock grinding phenomena;

It had nothing to do with magazine capacity. The high capacity magazine silliness did not come under legal scrutiny until the assault weapons law of 1994.
What collectors were reacting to was the provisions of the original national Firearms Act, (NFA) of 1934, which prohibited any pistol with a barrel length of less than 16" from having an attached shoulder stock. The curio and relics list was created to extempt certain historically important firearms from these provisions, if they were originally produced with the shoulder stock, (i.e. Navy and Artillery Lugers, C96s, etc. ). Cofusion as to what was and was not legal led to many Lugers having the stock lug groung off to put an end to any question of legality. (It is still illegal today to place a shoulder stock on a 4" standard Luger).
Aside from any lugs which may have been ground off overseas, this is the main reason this occured here in the US.

03-04-2011, 05:50 PM	#13
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	To clarify the stock grinding phenomena; It had nothing to do with magazine capacity. The high capacity magazine silliness did not come under legal scrutiny until the assault weapons law of 1994. What collectors were reacting to was the provisions of the original national Firearms Act, (NFA) of 1934, which prohibited any pistol with a barrel length of less than 16" from having an attached shoulder stock. The curio and relics list was created to extempt certain historically important firearms from these provisions, if they were originally produced with the shoulder stock, (i.e. Navy and Artillery Lugers, C96s, etc. ). Cofusion as to what was and was not legal led to many Lugers having the stock lug groung off to put an end to any question of legality. (It is still illegal today to place a shoulder stock on a 4" standard Luger). Aside from any lugs which may have been ground off overseas, this is the main reason this occured here in the US.