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Offline mdi

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Handi-Pistol?
« on: July 12, 2007, 10:27:35 AM »
Has anyone used a HandiRifle frame to build a pistol (as a Contender)? Shorten a bbl, and fabricate a pistol grip. I understand the stock bolt may pose a prob, but has anyone tried?
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Re: Handi-Pistol?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2007, 10:33:37 AM »
That would be very illegal to do without first getting an expensive permit from the BATF.

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Re: Handi-Pistol?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2007, 02:28:38 PM »
If the receiver came from the factory with a rifle butt stock on it - it is a rifle forever legally.  You would need a NFA Short Barreled Rifle tax stamp to turn it into anything otherwise.   

However, you can turn a pistol into a rifle and back again at anytime lawfully without the NFA stamp.
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Re: Handi-Pistol?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 02:35:08 PM »
Harrington & Richardson made a pistol until 1934.

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Re: Handi-Pistol?
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2007, 10:11:28 AM »
My grand-father had one and gave it to me in the early sixties.  It was a higher quality case hardened frame with lever on top instead of side.  Papaw called it a hawg's leg and said it was really for bank tellers.  Must have been before dye-pacs!!  It was stolen and only when I tried to buy another one, did I find out it was illegal to own.  I believe H&R called it a handi gun built on a #5 frame.


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Re: Handi-Pistol?
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2007, 10:19:15 AM »
H&R made a Handy Gun II model 258 rifle for a while, Krochus has one for sale in our classifieds for a while, but the pics are no longer available, it had a nickeled frame and two barrels.

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