Recently someone on a TC Contender/Encore group on face plant asked "can I switch my Encore rifle to a pistol" Meaning can he take the rifle barrel off, and take off the butstock, and affix a pistol grip and pistol barrel.
Of course the resounding response was noooooooo your gonna be arrested, and comments similar.
For those that might not know. A Contender and Encore are both single shot firearms. A big attraction of them is that they are interchangeable in that you can get 100's of calibers and conversions for them, and they all fit the same frame for said platform. The ATF had a ruling on this some time ago because TC was selling a kit, basically a pistol set-up and a carbine set-up. It was argued that they were selling a SBR via "constructive possession" I think its called, where they opined that one could put the pistol barrel on the frame with a rifle stock, hence, an SBR. Basically like putting a Charger takedown forend on your 10/22 rifle takedown receiver. Annnnnyways.......sure, I guess you could do that.
Encore shooters for years and years have swapped back and forth between rifle/pistol set ups and I haven't heard of one single case where anyone was jammed up.
Further, it is said, that once you put a rifle barrel on your frame, you can't use it ever again as a pistol, cause that would be manufacturing a pistol from a rifle.......
Any other Encore/Contender fans see this nonsense?
Of course the resounding response was noooooooo your gonna be arrested, and comments similar.
For those that might not know. A Contender and Encore are both single shot firearms. A big attraction of them is that they are interchangeable in that you can get 100's of calibers and conversions for them, and they all fit the same frame for said platform. The ATF had a ruling on this some time ago because TC was selling a kit, basically a pistol set-up and a carbine set-up. It was argued that they were selling a SBR via "constructive possession" I think its called, where they opined that one could put the pistol barrel on the frame with a rifle stock, hence, an SBR. Basically like putting a Charger takedown forend on your 10/22 rifle takedown receiver. Annnnnyways.......sure, I guess you could do that.
Encore shooters for years and years have swapped back and forth between rifle/pistol set ups and I haven't heard of one single case where anyone was jammed up.
Further, it is said, that once you put a rifle barrel on your frame, you can't use it ever again as a pistol, cause that would be manufacturing a pistol from a rifle.......
Any other Encore/Contender fans see this nonsense?