Home invasion, lessons learned

Steve Lempitski · 11-19-2012, 10:52 PM

One has to really know the regs if working on or around guns - when I was working for a gunsmith part time, a guy walked in looking to have a skeleton metal stock made for his Thompson Contender. The gunsmith was all set to start the order until I checked and found that had he done so, the weapon would have become an illegal short rifle, as rifles have to have a minimum of 16 inch barrels. I understand there was at one time, and may still be the issue of attaching a stock to an artillery luger - the ATF had overlooked it for exemption to the regs...

11-19-2012, 10:52 PM	#26
Steve Lempitski User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Old Cape Cod Posts: 238 Thanks: 1 Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts	One has to really know the regs if working on or around guns - when I was working for a gunsmith part time, a guy walked in looking to have a skeleton metal stock made for his Thompson Contender. The gunsmith was all set to start the order until I checked and found that had he done so, the weapon would have become an illegal short rifle, as rifles have to have a minimum of 16 inch barrels. I understand there was at one time, and may still be the issue of attaching a stock to an artillery luger - the ATF had overlooked it for exemption to the regs... __________________ SJL