Separating AR pistol for private sale question

straightravage · Sep 25, 2018

Hello, I was wondering what the laws were for selling AR pistols private party.

Is it possible to separate the AR pistol and sell the upper and lowers separately?

Will the lower have to go through an FFL for private sale of the lower?

Thanks in advance.

StantonCree · Sep 25, 2018

straightravage said:
Hello, I was wondering what the laws were for selling AR pistols private party.

Is it possible to separate the AR pistol and sell the upper and lowers separately?

Will the lower have to go through an FFL for private sale of the lower?

Thanks in advance.

LOWER still has to go through FFL

straightravage · Sep 25, 2018

Thanks for the info!

d33rhunt3r · Sep 27, 2018

When you do the transfer of the lower, make sure it's done as "O" for Other.

babalou · Sep 27, 2018

Exactly so it can be built in either config....pistol and rifle and switched

Rab1515 · Sep 27, 2018

babalou said:
Exactly so it can be built in either config....pistol and rifle and switched

Once it is a pistol isn't always a pistol even when it is stripped?

dontpanic · Sep 27, 2018

Rab1515 said:
Once it is a pistol isn't always a pistol even when it is stripped?

Yes.

It dies not matter how it is described when it is sold. Only what it is. (In this case, a lower receiver that was built into a pistol before a rifle)

Smokescreen · Sep 28, 2018

Another bit of food for thought. If the AR Pistol is on MD's Handgun Roster then it does not need to be broken down to sell but still has to go through an FFL and will buyer will need an HQL since its a pistol.

If it isn't on the roster then it has to be broken down, the lower goes through an FFL and the buyer will not need an HQL since its a AR lower.

atblis · Sep 29, 2018

dontpanic said:
Yes.

It dies not matter how it is described when it is sold. Only what it is. (In this case, a lower receiver that was built into a pistol before a rifle)

I am not so sure about that. Throw on a stock and HBAR upper is it now not just simply a long-arm in MD?

ETA: Actually, note the word "remade" in the definition of a rifle.

Rifle
(1) "Rifle" means a weapon that is designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder; and
(2) Designed or redesigned, and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed Metallic Cartridge to fire only a single Projectile through a Rifled Bore for each single pull of the Trigger.

So then the question to me is "is a stripped lower a regulated firearm under Maryland law". I am not convinced. Yes, I know that's how it's currently being "interpreted", but... I suppose a stripped upper is easily concealable on your person.

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