It was completely machined, and serialized. Those were and are still required to be transferred through an FFL. At the time of transfer, I believe you can designate it a pistol, and build either a pistol or rifle with it. If transferred as a rifle, it must be made into a rifle.
I never put any thought to designating pistol or rifle.
Point I was trying to make is, the recent courts have done a start over on ATF “rules”. One that they apparently never expected.
BATF is total FUBAR. So is DOJ.
I absolutely hate bureaucraps and idiots running things by mindless heartless brainless computers.
We are absolutely dying from complexity and the only solutions offered is more complexity.
Complexity will kill the nation and any freedom for mankind.
Einstein understood this:
Einstein: Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler
Einstein: When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Einstein: Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Einstein: Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.