That’s what I understand...
Some of these comments are...unsettling.
I don’t get the dif between buying a gun from a private dealer and buying the lower from a private dealer.
As soon as you use the words “private dealer” - you’re sending us into the weeds.
A dealer is someone who is licensed by the BATF.
A private individual is someone who is not a dealer.
A “private dealer” is an oxymoron.
Are you talking of buying this lower from a private individual or a dealer?
HOWEVER, there is one little catch.
If you buy a second hand stripped lower from a private party, you have no idea if it was FFL’d as a pistol or a rifle. If it was sold as a pistol reciever, you may build it into a rifle OR a pistol. But if it was sold as a rifle receiver and you build it into a pistol...OH YOU ARE IN TROUBLE. (depending on the state). I live in iowa. If you buy a stripped lower that was originally sold as a rifle stripped lower and you attach a short barrel to it, you just broke a federal law. You just built a “short barrel rifle” and that is a federal offense.
Just one thing to think about...if you buy it from a private party, and it later turns out to have been stolen, you could be charged with receiving stolen property, even if you didn’t know.