AK gunsmith

[PTinbound]

Hey all, my third cousin once removed has a friend whose cousin in law may have an AK pistol that he is wondering if it could be altered into a rifle. Are there any gunsmiths who could do this? He lives up in NWI but does get down to Indy from time to time. He has very little mechanical aptitude himself….

 

[EPeter213]

Hey all, my third cousin once removed has a friend whose cousin in law may have an AK pistol that he is wondering if it could be altered into a rifle. Are there any gunsmiths who could do this? He lives up in NWI but does get down to Indy from time to time. He has very little mechanical aptitude himself….

I am not a gunsmith, nor a member of the AFT, but this question seems… questionable.

 

[IUKalash429]

Not sure if you forgot the purple text or not, but @AllenM does great work in the Indy area. Though if your message is accurate he may not want to touch this job with a 10-foot barrel...

 

[Angrysauce]

Hey all, my third cousin once removed has a friend whose cousin in law may have an AK pistol that he is wondering if it could be altered into a rifle. Are there any gunsmiths who could do this? He lives up in NWI but does get down to Indy from time to time. He has very little mechanical aptitude himself….

Legally speaking a pistol is always a pistol, unless you SBR it.
I was mistaken. Barrel swap, headspacing, finding and putting on new barrel components, and adding a rear trunnion is probably not a cost-effective adventure. Leave that poor draco alone

 

[DadSmith]

Legally speaking a pistol is always a pistol, unless you SBR it.

All these AR-15 pistols turning into Rifles soon will be illegal?

 

[Angrysauce]

All these AR-15 pistols turning into Rifles soon will be illegal?

SBRs

 

[DadSmith]

SBR

16"+ barrel.... LBR

 

[Angrysauce]

16"+ barrel.... LBR

I had it backwards, a Title 1 Pistol can be configured as a Title 1 Rifle and then returned to it's original configuration. A Title 1 Rifle can not be made into a Pistol, but can be made a Title 2 SBR with a Form 1. The rules are murky on Pistol>SBR>Pistol. ATF ruling 2011-4.

Allegedly there is to be an amnesty for the braced pistols so there many very well be a bunch more SBRs added the the NFRTR.

 

[AllenM]

Can be done but not cost effective.

 

[JamesV]

You can get a hold of @AaronK, Armory 219 out of Valpo