Is a complete lower registered as a frame/receiver only?

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I know stripped lowers are, and I'm assuming a complete lower is as well but I would like to confirm.
 
Has anyone been stopped to or fro the range with their 'Frame/Receiver only' after shooting with their Upper(s)? If so, what did the officer say?
 
upgrading frame/receiver certificates

As already mentioned in the small print at the top of the sheet your registration is printed on are "the conditions"! After doing 3 lower receiver builds and obtaining upper assemblies for each I called CFC to ask how to update my certificates. They in turn put in touch with the firearms technical section, they get your information i.e. barrel length, mag. capacity, etc. and then in a not so timely fashion update the reg. cert. to reflect the new completed firearm.
I was recommended not to take completed builds to the range with only a frame/ receiver cert. as it could be open to many interpretations depending on who started asking the questions if you met with the authorites.
Have received one new certificate and still waiting on the other two. At one point the CFC asked me to have them verified but as I was a verifier before they cut me some slack in that area.
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Mark -beaver455
 
What if you have several different uppers in different lengths? Do you register the shortest one and have them add in the "barrel length minimum of..."

While I'm at it, what exactly makes it a "complete" lower?
 
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What if you have several different uppers in different lengths? Do you register the shortest one and have them add in the "barrel length minimum of..."

While I'm at it, what exactly makes it a "complete" lower?

I would assume the complete assembly - add an upper, push the pins, and you have a rifle.
There registration system does not distinguish between a stripped receiver and a complete action.
 
What if you have several different uppers in different lengths? Do you register the shortest one and have them add in the "barrel length minimum of..."

While I'm at it, what exactly makes it a "complete" lower?

As a matter of fact I had to call the CFC not long ago because I had completed a lower build and added an upper. Since I have other ARs and I want to be able to swap the uppers, I had to list the different barrel lengths I had to the lady for her to put them in the modified registration for the lower/rifle.
 
Then when they come to collect your firearms one day, you are obligated to hand over the upper, thanks to your brand new Reg Cert.

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