yes this is true if it was registered as a rifle, but this is what I am asking.....if I disassemble my ar right now, call the cfo today and tell him I just sold all my parts - it will be "reclassified" as a lower only. in the event a confiscation happens down the road, I will take whatever legal means available to retain my lower but failing that - they will have to pick up my pail of cement and take it back and check the serial and registration and it will say a registered lower and thats what they have, it will not say a fully functional rifle so they will not ask me to produce the rest of the parts.
I am not willingly complying, nor will I simply drive my lower in and drop it off at the request of "letter in the mail"...I will exhaust every legal option available to me....and when thats done and I am left with a potential criminal record or letting them pick up a pail of cement....well, I'll make that decision at the 11th hour. maybe I wont hand it over at all....but if I do, this is what I am planning.
they can have the cemented lower.