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Tom R

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HELP!
I am RT.handed and want to make a 22RF BR Pistol.
Who makes a RBRP Rimfire Pistol action?
What width of stock would you suggest?
Open to any and all suggestions
Thanks
Tom R
 
I don't think anybody. I'd probably take a hard look at the Anschutz Exemplar [sp].
 
You should be able to use a Hall, Turbo, or Kelbly without any trouble. I know some of them offer different bolt and port options.
 
Tom R

If your right handed wouldn't it be easier to work the bolt and load ammo with your left hand and use your right hand to control and hold the pistol while loading. (leaving the pistol less disturbed in the bags. Just an idea.

Hal
 
Hi Hal,
You are 100% correct
I don't make mistakes but this computer does.
Should of been,LBLP
Tom R:D
 
The Anscutz is left bolt if you can find one..................Gary
 
I have an Anschutz and it is a left bolt left port Model 64 action. It shoots pretty good off the bench. You can get a Hall rimfire action with a right bolt and a left or right port. New Ultra Light Arms makes a rimfire action with a left bolt left port or right bolt right port. Don't know about the others. Call them up and talk to them. You will have to call ULA in the mornings to get them.

Chuck
 
Here are a few pics of Allan Halls .22 BR pistol, its RBLP but it will give you a idea. Give Allan a call, he is a great guy and will help you get what you want.

Allan Hall
Phone (205) 755-4094
allan@hallmfg.com

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Ron W.
 
Better let the manufacture know whats going on

Mooseyard said:
You should be able to use a Hall, Turbo, or Kelbly without any trouble. I know some of them offer different bolt and port options.
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I am not so sure of that. Maybe you are right but I think you have to have the manufacture entity enter your action in his books as a pistol before its built. Its those pesky laws of the BATF again. Each of the above sells his action as a rifle action. Hall may have described his personal rimfire as a pistol when it was made. I do know you can not take something that started out as rifle when it was sold, an action with the serial number is the relevant part, and make it a pistol. This is part of the reason for all the trouble Bill Calfee goes to when making his XP rimfires. I would check first before going down the road and just buy an action and make a pistol. Someone with a grudge might turn you in just to see you squirm.
 
I believe that was the Gun Control Act of 1969 that limited the change. It's been around a looooonnnnnngggggg time. Right or wrong, Molly is correct.

Carp
 
You can use an action booked as a rifle by the manufacturer to build a "rifle" that looks like a pistol IF:

The barrel is at least 18" long AND the overall length of the gun is 26".

Anything below those numbers and you now have a "short barreled" rifle which would be illegal.

That Hall Pistol would qualify as a rifle.

HoseR
 
The receiver becomes a pistol or rifle when the dealer does the 4473 transfer paperwork. If he does the paperwork necassary for a pistol, the receiver can be built into a pistol as long as it has never had a rifle barrel or stock attached. The following is from the ATF Regulations Reference guide.
The term rifle means a weapon designed or redisigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger. The term "Handgun" means- (A) a firearm which has a short stock and is deisgned to be held and fired by the use of a single hand; and (B) any combination of parts from which a firearm described in subparagraph (A) can be assembled. The barrel length and overall length do not change the classification from handgun to rifle, it's the stock that does. A gun with a 6" barrel and a shoulder stock is still considered a rifle (short barrel rifle per NFA). A pistol gripped gun with a 20" barrel and no shoulder stock is still a handgun. The ATF cleared up the myth about not building handguns from rifle receivers with the following ruling in 2004. http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=122&t=245366 I hope this helped
 
You think its a myth, ok

The ATF cleared up the myth about not building handguns from rifle receivers with the following ruling in 2004.

All that letter from the ATF does is answer one question for one instance. Their are alot of people, for example people with rewelded m14 receivers they believed one letter that floated around the net and are now languishing in Terra Haute courtesy of Uncle. If you want to believe that one letter answers all questions about handgun to rifles and vice versa your welcome to your opinion. I council caution.
 
I'm not familiar with the M14's or what the letter said, so I don't know why those people are in the pen. I will tell you that when dealing with Machine Guns it is a different world especially if dealing with DEWATS or REWATS. It is common knowledge in many shooting circles (especially AR-15 groups) that building a pistol from an unused rifle receiver is perfectly fine. The letter from Sterling Nixon pertaining to the receivers doesn't specifically mention the AR receiver, it just says a rifle receiver. If someone (ATF/FBI) has an issue with someone building a pistol from an unused rifle receiver they need to take it up with Mr. Nixon.
 
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