Thanks,but that's not the reply I looking for.In what stage is a lower considered a gun in MA ? Is it when the striped lower is assembled,or is it when an upper is matted to it.Is buying an assembled lower considered buying a gun?
Its still the same basic definition when you are talking about a firearm......”from which a shot or bullet can be discharged“..... A shot or bullet cannot be discharged from a lower. A lower isn’t a Rifle or Firearm.
'Firearm'', a stun gun or a pistol, revolver or other weapon of any description, loaded or unloaded, from which a shot or bullet can be discharged and of which the length of the barrel or barrels is less than 16 inches or 18 inches in the case of a shotgun as originally manufactured; provided, however, that the term firearm shall not include any weapon that is: (i) constructed in a shape that does not resemble a handgun, short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun including, but not limited to, covert weapons that resemble key-chains, pens, cigarette-lighters or cigarette-packages; or (ii) not detectable as a weapon or potential weapon by x-ray machines commonly used at airports or walk- through metal detectors.
https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/parti/titlexx/chapter140/section121
