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Needs to be transferred to you as "pistol" and you never, ever have worries, ever. Not ever. Or, stripped lower needs to be transferred to you as "other" on the 4473 paperwork, and needs to be built as a "pistol" configuration first. I have pics of all my "pistol" builds with date stamps on the pics, shortly after they were transferred as "other." I can prove, without a doubt, that I built all my pistols, as pistols. Gonna be hard for them to prove otherwise, with the documentation that I have on each pistol... Stripped Lowers SHOULD transfer as "other" - because at that point, they're not a firearm, and neither a "rifle" or "pistol" - unless they're specifically caliber-marked as "pistol" right on the stripped lower receiver... - then they have to transfer on the 4473 as a pistol...

A boat is just a hole in the water that you throw more money into...

That doesn't matter - it's a pistol. Pistols don't have a "Length of Pull" because they don't have a stock, which defeats two BATFE definitions. You have to measure the stock... doesn't exist on a pistol. You have a pistol - which doesn't have a stock... Maybe for an SBR- wait, that's got a Tax Stamp, so almost anything is legal on that, once you're approved and get the Stamp... This is a non-event. It doesn't exist, outside of that one letter they sent to one guy that asked ignorant questions... It's not law, and it's never been in a Determination Letter for public consumption... What they wrote to that one individual - doesn't matter to anyone else in the USA, other than that one individual. That was a personal opinion letter from FTB, only...

Will ya look at the hind quarters on that one...

You've never shot this bitch, brother? It goes out to every Fall Shoot... Oh, wait... @edgecrusher claims it before every trip out here, so it's hard to get it out of his hands...

I was just getting ready to go here, when I read his reply - no kidding. Square-faced ejectors will "swipe" brass, on regular guns, with normal loads - from the rounds feeding from the right side of the magazine, only. Now, since we're talking about "too much gas" - the gas port diameter and barrel configuration should be discussed - to see if it's really over-gassed. Chances are, it's not over-gassed at all, and it's running a 3.8oz buffer in there, with some weird recoil spring. Not Enough Ass To Control The Mass... of the .308AR BCG, right there. Putting an adjustable gas block on a gun like that is just putting a band-aid on the wrong cut...

So, I meet up with @edgecrusher in 2011 or 2012, having already met out here in the desert before. He's really the one that the "desert shoot" stuff started with, no lie. So, I'd met him the year before out here, this is the second time meeting up. We link up just outside of Tombstone at an annual HUGE Cowboy Action Shoot that his Father In Law is into - and it was badass. Met Bob and Sherrie Mernickle there, and bought my first two holsters from them. Wonderful people, just amazing. Greg says, "Hey, what's this guy doing over here? Is he making grips?..." We walk into his tent - sure enough, this guy is from Tucson, and he makes some BADASS custom grips for the Cowboy Action Guns - AND makes them for 1911s... Damnit. Greg looks at this big chunk of Burl Ironwood, two-tone brown, and says, "THAT!!! THAT!!! It's gonna be GREAT on the Desert Warrior!!!..." Fuk me... I was carrying the Tac Pro II that day, and didn't have the Desert Warrior on me - but it was Saturday. Greg and Fam had to fly out on Sunday, but I had to go back to the shoot anyway, because I had all our raffle tickets, and top prize was a complete Dillon 650B reloading setup. I took the Desert Warrior back there,met up with the grip guy... Couldn't find the fucking piece of Burl Ironwood, though, that was IN THE CASE YESTERDAY?!!? WTF?! The guy pulled it on Saturday, right after Greg and I left the tent, because he KNEW... He pulls it out of a pocket in his shop apron, and says, "you're looking for THIS one..." I had to literally give him the gun - he had it for 5 weeks, total, to make the grips for it. Out of a bigass hunk of wood. Unreal workmanship, damn near artwork. He cut the wood block right down the middle, and reversed the pieces, so they'd be about as "mirror-image" as they could be. He knocked it outta the park. Thanks, Greg... This motherfucker in a brown leather Punisher holster is gonna be fucking SWEET!...

Exactly! But those bitches look so good on that gun, brother... Haha! I was in there tonight, right after work, too. I didn't take the Desert Warrior to work with me, so no pic today. I'll take it in there tomorrow and get the pic... I swear by them. I have a couple of their holsters, and they're fucking GREAT holsters...

Fucker...

I got rid of the second wife two years ago. The first one in 1997 for practical purposes, 1999 for real. I'm safe on that. People ask what my marital status is, and I say "Very Happily Divorced!" I ain't afraid of the holster, or what it might cost. I'm afraid of liking it, alot - and how many of the other 1911s might need one of them... THAT is the scary part!...

I'll be in there tomorrow or Saturday, so I'll take the Desert Warrior with me and park it in that holster. That's only gonna spell bad news for me, if I do that for you fuckers, though... "Just to get a pic" right?... I'm gonna suffer for this, I can see this bruise on my horizon right now...

DAMN!!! That is artwork!!! There's a local leather guy that showed up here recently- he's from somewhere else, but moved his snow-bird ass here... and got in with my Gun Pusher. He's got a 5" 1911 holster in the shop as a "demo" with a SWEET Punisher skull on it... that would fit my Desert Warrrior but PROPER... I'm jonesin' on that damn holster, trying to resist... Gawd Damn! Those are some nice 1911s, brother!!!

Well done, my man...

That barrel SUCKED!!! As soon as you changed that barrel out with a good one, you had a real gun again, brother!...

^^^ That's fucked up...

ATF sent that to ONE INDIVIDUAL THAT SENT THEM A STUPID LETTER. This has never been talked about, from ATF, since. The Gun-Web has blown this out of proportion, big time... They more they talk about it - the more attention it draws. So, my posts should be deleted now?... They'll self-destruct 5 seconds after y'all read them...

^^^ HOLY SHEIIIITTTT!!! How many slings did you GET?! Well done, @beachmaster

I'm in that boat right now, too, and it's pissing me off, brother.

No link to news, zero reference... Here's the deal on Colt - they, THEY, state their stopping .civ longs guns so "they can refocus on capturing the military market" again. Whatever. Won't happen. Do as you will though, Colt, and think that will "refocus" your efforts to get-again the military contracts that you lost by your own fault... Colt went under in 2015. Somehow, they managed to still be here. According to Colt, and their story on whey they're doing this, you have to read in to it a little. They're (according to them, but NOT directly stated), NOT doing this as a political-pressure, gun-grab, BS Dem agenda to keep guns out of .civ hands. They never stated that as a reason to stop making gun for .civs. The only thing they stated was to "re-focus on .mil contracts." Doesn't matter what they do, FN will smoke them in the M4/M4A1/M16 market, like they started doing in the M16 market about 1997-ish. Very first FN M16 I ever saw was in Korea during a 2-year tour. Shocked the fuk outta me, looking at the markings on the magwell... Here a link on the story. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/colt-halts-sales-of-long-guns-to-the-retail-market/

I thought that last year, too...

I go through it so fast it's not even funny - plus I fill empty LaRue containers during the shoots. Last year, these fools smoked me on refills - with SIX POUNDS!..., so I had to up my ante at the table a little, this time...

This breaks my heart, brother - that shiit is empty... I'll fill that thing back up for you.

That Dillo Dust container is looking sad, brother, empty as fuk sitting there, and that's just not right. Contact me. I have your refill. Hang on to the container. Last year before the Fall Shoot, I offered refills - and filled them when dudes showed up with empty-ish Dillo Dust containers. I got 6lbs of the stuff for that. Hehehe, MY mistake! Between the refills of members that showed up, and my own grilling through the year - I fuckin' RAN OUT. I made an order to keep myself alive, through the year, just to sustain me, and I already prepped for this year's Fall Shoot. I'm sitting on 13lbs of Dillo Dust right now, just to get ready for the FS this year, shiit you not. Call me, I'll send you a whole pound. You deserve that, Rene...

The letter-writer seriously fucked up when asking about folding adaptors, too. That's where the LOP BS came into it, IIRC...

That makes sense - when you have 30 people living in a 3-bedroom human trafficking house. Never thought about that part of it, man. That's why they shouldn't be allowed to partake in the US Census, too. One more thing to throw into the pile of "what they shouldn't be allowed to do in this country." Seriously. We're coming up on that one again, shortly...