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Doesn't Oregon do fingerprints and a state process for receiver sales?
You can buy it from where you like, but you have to take possession from a FFL in your state.Hello,
Can someone tell me what the law or the process is for buying just the lower in Oregon. This would be coming from a Washington resident.
Thank you in advance!
Probably depends on whether it's sold as rifle or other I guess? My friend said she got all her lowers as 'other' but she could be mistaken.Wrong answers above - sorry - but wrong.
The configuration it was originally assembled in determines whether it can be assembled as a pistol , but the definition of "rifle" or "shotgun" depends on its current physical configuration.
That's not correct. If a lower starts out as a rifle, meaning it fires a projectile through a rifled barrel and is designed to be fired from the shoulder, that assembled firearm is a rifle. The reason that lower cannot be modified to be a pistol is because the definition of short barreled rifle includes firearms with barrels under 16" or overall length under 26" made from a rifle. That is a wholly separate issue from the question of whether a stripped lower sitting in a shoebox is a rifle, shotgun, handgun or other. While sitting in the shoebox the lower receiver does not have a rifled bore and is not designed to be fired from the shoulder.
If it's bought as part of a factory made rifle, or was ever assembled as such, I believe that's true. I also think, but am not sure, that it's incorrect to buy a "virgin" stripped lower as anything but other. Would love to see a definitive answer on that just as a matter of curiosity.Try telling that to the ATF. If the lower came from the factory configured as a rifle, it will always be a rifle lower no matter how many parts you strip from it.
There is no need to tell the ATF anything because by following the law the person is abiding by more restrictions not fewer (in this case refraining from buying (taking possession of) a stripped lower in a state other than the state of residence). The ATF would be happy, not unhappy, that the Washington resident went back to Washington to acquire the lower receiver instead of trying to acquire it from an Oregon dealer.Try telling that to the ATF. If the lower came from the factory configured as a rifle, it will always be a rifle lower no matter how many parts you strip from it. If they do a trace back on the lower serial number, it will come back as a rifle. You cannot take a rifle receiver like that and make it into a handgun - it will be an SBR.
Only if the lower is sold originally (when it comes from the manufacturer) as "other" or "handgun" will the receiver be legal to be configured as a handgun.
Same goes for a shotgun; you cannot strip the receiver down to almost nothing and then make a "firearm" (e.g., Shockwave, Tac-14) out of it. It was once a shotgun, it always will be. That is why the manufacturers start with a receiver that has never been configured as a shotgun and the only way the ATF allows it to be a "firearm".
There is a LOT of court precedent and regs/etc. on this.
So again, it depends on how the lower started out and again, the OP is not clear on what he/she means when stating "lower receiver".
There is no need to tell the ATF anything because by following the law the person is abiding by more restrictions not fewer (in this case refraining from buying (taking possession of) a stripped lower in a state other than the state of residence). The ATF would be happy, not unhappy, that the Washington resident went back to Washington to acquire the lower receiver instead of trying to acquire it from an Oregon dealer.
If it's bought as part of a factory made rifle, or was ever assembled as such, I believe that's true.
I also think, but am not sure, that it's incorrect to buy a "virgin" stripped lower as anything but other. Would love to see a definitive answer on that just as a matter of curiosity.