Curious law technicality with the 10/22

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I was thinking about this curiously. For those who have 10/22's with short 8-12 inch barrels and just at the 26 inch overall legal length. If you take the receiver out of the stock for cleaning. Are you committing a federal crime? Since at that point it is either a restricted handgun, or it is a prohibited firearm that has been "modified" to be shorter than 26 inches.

Heck this is with a 10/22 in general with even 18 inch barrels. When you remove the receiver and the barrel from the stock, the leftover parts can still discharge a round and the overall length is under 26 inches. So are we all committing federal felonies when we separate the receiver and the stock to clean the gun?


Restricted rifles and shotguns that can be fired when their overall length has been reduced by folding, telescoping or other means to less than 660 mm
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Prohibited rifles and shotguns that have been altered by sawing or other means so that their barrel length is less than 457 mm or their overall length is less than 660 mm;
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Does by "other means" include taking the receiver out of the stock?

Food for thought.
 
Well to take it out of the stock means removing the trigger which means it can't be fired out side of the stock which means it has to be measured when it's in the stock.

Now if you take it apart it becomes a frame which is still non restricted even with no barrel on it.

A luger pistol can be fired with just the upper but the lower part is the firearm ie the frame... figure that one out...
 
haha49 said:
Well to take it out of the stock means removing the trigger which means it can't be fired out side of the stock which means it has to be measured when it's in the stock.

Now if you take it apart it becomes a frame which is still non restricted even with no barrel on it.
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But you can fire a 10/22 when it's outside of the stock. The trigger group is attached to the receiver not the stock.

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I believe you can shoot this.
 
Most of my long guns can be fired with the stock removed, but they are neither designed, nor intended, nor modified to be used in this manner which was, I believe, the intent of the legislation.

Of course, intentionally using a firearm this way would likely constitute an offense. Most of us clean 'em & reassemble 'em, without trying to shoot them while they're in pieces.
 
It is legal to take the stock off your gun, regardless of length. There is no law against it. If you add a pistol grip to a short rifle, it may be interpreted as a pistol, for example.

I am often bewildered by the people who think that taking a stock off a rifle makes it physically impossible to fire it.
The only problem with firing the 10/22 with the stock off is that the trigger group pins might fall out.
 
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