Quote Originally Posted past OverTork View Post

The firearm was built and registered as a pistol.

From this statement, this firearm did not have a shoulder stock and information technology had a barrel under sixteen" to take an OAL of under 26". It was also duly registered in Michigan's firearm data base. There is no issue with this. The ATF issued a ruling afterward they lost the SCOTUS case that you lot can/may brand a rifle from a pistol, and and then alter it back, information technology merely has to showtime as a pistol. The reverse is the firsthand creation of an NFA item. If you lot go through the NFA procedure, then the rifle that you build from the pistol can be an SBR in such that either the barrel is under sixteen" OR the OAL is under 26". Michigan holds true to the federal laws on this, MCL 750-224b, with the but difference being the method of measure out. Nosotros can have what Michigan views as an SBR, simply nether Federal regulations is but a rifle. And per the same law, those must be registered in Michigan'due south firearm data base of operations. Still it still holds that you don't have to re-register a firearm considering you fabricated an alteration (i.e. a longer butt on a revolver).

Quote Originally Posted by OverTork View Post

The new SBR would remain nether 26� in it�s collapsed configuration keeping it a pistol under Michigan law.

It would be an SBR when it is in that configuration, and a pistol if it was returned to its' original configuration. If information technology is always under the 26" mark, y'all may care for it equally if were a pistol, merely it takes a physical change of the firearm to alter its' designation.

This whole "Michigan Pistol" thing started in 1985 with AG Kelley's Opinion #6280. At that time it was illegal for us to have whatever kind of an SBR/SBS, and the minimum OAL of a long arm was thirty". The AG determined that what would be merely a rifle or a shotgun any where else in the country would accept to be registered "every bit a pistol". These firearms had a very narrow 4" margin that they had to fall within. A rifle or shotgun (with 16/eighteen barrels respectively) merely perhaps had a folding stock and were shorter than 30" but longer than 26" fell into this group (shorter than 26" with a folding stock were illegal SBR/SBS, even though it might exist just a burglarize to the Feds).

The firearm customs here in Michigan started with the thought "Only in Michigan is that a "pistol"", hence the misnomer "Michigan Pistol". And that phrase only applies to those firearms. In 2012 the laws were inverse (effective 1-1-2013) and included provisions for "grandfathering" those firearms. So, they still exist if the original possessor maintains the registration, and is a special ready of circumstance for how they are treated. The law also provided for registering ANYTHING that is 26" or nether. They as well specified what procedure to employ, which just happens to be the aforementioned one used for pistols (why reinvent the wheel?), merely the process does non modify what the firearm actually is, and as per reason, all firearms registered in the information base of operations are treated the same as to possession/transport or carry.

Continuing to use misnomers makes one announced to be the aforementioned equally those on TV with the Cartridge/Bullet, Magazine/Clip, xxx caliber magazine prune, or "that is the shoulder thing that goes upwards" grouping.

We are as well trying to fool ourselves. Everyone thinks that "only pistols" are registered here in Michigan. Merely that is not the truth. Handguns, and any rifle or shotgun that falls beneath some minimum length ready by an arbitrary method of measure. How much would it take to expand that? They have done it to a certain extent right under our noses already.