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I would stay away from the XRail for a Benelli: - Benellis are recoil operated and you are adding over 2 pounds of recoild-absorbing weight to your Benelli with a fully loaded XRail. Even RCI, maker of the XRail, somewhat disclaims the reliability of Benelli shotguns using their product. Check out the website. - For the price of the M2 and XRail, you are very close to getting yourself into a Salient M2, which is more or less the end-all 3-Gun shotgun. - Mag capacity is no substitute for knowing how to reload your shotgun.

Meant to ask about FFT trigger and disconnector with GEISSELE hammer, sorry.

Anyone foresee any issues running the FFT trigger and disconnector with the hammer?

922r does not provide the specific exemption, but it does focus its applicability so specifically as to imply an exemption for NFA. 18 USC 922®: Section 922 Paragraph R states: "It shall be unlawful for any person to assemble from imported parts any semiautomatic rifle or any shotgun which is identical to any rifle or shotgun prohibited from importation under section 925(d)(3) of this chapter as not being particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes except that this subsection shall not apply to-- (1) the assembly of any such rifle or shotgun for sale or distribution by a licensed manufacturer to the United States or any department or agency thereof or to any State or any department, agency, or political subdivision thereof; or (2) the assembly of any such rifle or shotgun for the purposes of testing or experimentation authorized by the Attorney General. " You'll notice the prohibition is on the assembly of a rifle or shotgun that is identical to one prohibited from importation as not being suitable or readily adaptable to sporting purpose. "Suitable or readily adaptable to sporting purpose" is actually one of three specific categories of imported firearms defined in GCA 1968. The other two defined categories are Mil-Surp firearms and NFA firearms. If 922r had any applicability to NFA firearms, congress would not have been so specific in the category of firearm you cannot create and would have added "NFA". In simpler terms, the law defines imported firearms to be either and only Yellow, Blue or Red. 922r says you cannot build a rifle or shotgun that is identical to a Yellow firearm. Your Form 1 creates a Blue firearm, not yellow, so 922r does not apply. Legally speaking, it really is that simple. "NFA" and "suitable or readily adaptable to sporting purpose" are two legislatively defined and mutually exclusive categories of imported firearms, so there really is no question as to 922r's focus. While I'm aware of the contrary letters from NFA Branch, this issue in particular is so clear that I am wholly comfortable ignoring 922r in any NFA build.

922r does not apply to NFA firearms, period. Read the actual text of 922r and you'll see why. The GCA of 1968 creates three categories of imported firearms: Military Surplus firearms, NFA firearms and firearms "suitable of readily adaptable to sporting purpose." 922r text defines it's applicability very clearly, specifying only firearms "suitable or readily adaptable to sporting purpose." NFA is not mentioned in 922r and would have to be in order for this law to apply here.

Sorry, I think it needs the front sight. Looks unfinished.

This is a VERY good thing. AOWs made from a Remington 870 or Mossberg 500 are not shotguns at all since they do not and never did have a buttstock, making them decidedly not "designed or redesigned to be fired from the shoulder". It's easy to call them shotguns since they look, act, feed and fire like a shotgun, but they are considered "smooth-bore pistols" thus AOWs under the NFA. The practical distinction is thin, but the legal distinction is enormous since any federal law or regulation pertaining to a "short-barreled shotgun" does not apply to an AOW of the same pedigree. And any state law or regulation that mirrors federal law pertaining to an SBS also does not apply. This means in such places like California (and Indiana) where the Remington 870 SBS is prohibited, the Remington 870 AOW is not.

Getting caught is always the other practical matter. We all drive faster than 55, some are more lucky with it than others. The vast majority of these cases are not the result of an ATF investigation of you resulting in a search warrant issued for your house. In most cases, firearms violations are discovered incidentally to an otherwise unrelated 911 call. For example, you have a house fire or medical emergency, call 911 which triggers responses from Fire, Police and Para. A firefighter sees a scary looking gun in your bedroom closet and alerts the police officer on scene and there it goes. Unless you are really involved in some criminal activity, you won't be the subject of an ATF investigation. That's not something you should worry about.

Actually, this scenario is exactly the condition decided by US v. Thompson/Center: An aggregate of parts that can be used to build both an illegal configuration and a legal one. For this hypothetical, the registered SBS M4 is your pathway to legality for the spare 14" barrel, despite also possessing a Title I M4. You are legal in this scenario. Basically, you need to establish a legal use for the offending part or parts. The registered SBS is your legal use, even as a spare part just sitting around.

If your Form 4 or 1 has not been approved, then your NFA firearm or device is not yet registered to you. Nothing short of an approved and returned Form 1 or 4 should be considered safe to possess the NFA firearm, assembled or not. If you are discovered with the device before you are approved, in the eyes of the law it is no different than not submitting the application and paying the tax to begin with. In court, it's immaterial that you applied or were approved the very next day because at the time of the arrest, it was unregistered. That fact would likely not even be allowed presentation as evidence in your defense. The fact that you did have an application in the pipeline may weigh in your favor when the US Attorney in your area decides whether or not to prosecute you, but you certainly do not want a prosecutor's mood to decide this. Separately, FFL/SOTs, oddly, tend to be the most uninformed people in this community regarding laws and regs. I've heard more garbage and FUD come from FFLS than anyone else. If you have an NFA-related question, best bet is to call NFA Branch and ask either an examiner or Tech Branch.

Sounds like several people here don't know much about the NFA. A short barrel is just a part, yes. Completely unregulated. However, if you also possess a compatible firearm and no path to the legal use of that short barrel, then you are in violation under Constructive Possession. A disassembled short-barreled shotgun and an assembled short-barrel shotgun are precisely the same thing under the law. See US v Thompson/Center Arms Co. This case affirms Constructive Possession for NFA firearms, however it clarifies that CP does not apply if there is a legal pathway for the use of the NFA-specific part. In other words, hypothetically, if you owned a complete M4 shotgun and bought and possessed this 14" M4 barrel, then, without an approved Form 1 for the SBS, you would have no legal path to the use of that 14" M4 barrel and would therefore be in violation under CP. Your actual intent behind possessing and using the barrel is irrelevant to the charge. This applies to NFA firearms across the board, to include full-auto fire control parts and a compatible semi-auto firearm. If they catch you with a semi-auto AR15 and a set of M16 fire control parts in your possession, even if not installed in the rifle, CP allows LE to disassemble your AR, install those M16 parts and try to make the rifle fire a second round with a single trigger pull (which is easy to do). When they are successful, you can be arrested and charged with possession of an unregistered machine gun. That's how it works. The only exception to this are "silencers", which have no CP applicability simply because an individual suppressor part (tube, baffle, end cap, etc) is defined as a "silencer" by itself. And there is plenty of case law to back up CP as it pertains to NFA, both state and fed. Seek it out and read it before concluding it's not real.

What you are suggesting is a felony under "Constructive Possession". A disassembled SBS that is in your possession is the same condition as an assembled SBS under this legal doctrine. Leaving the barrel at your friends house would avoid the CP issue, but unless you are planning to Form 1 the SBS, then what's the point?

I'm going to assume you're joking because that's mildly funny.

In this day and age of numerous options for picatinny rails, rail mounts and smaller, brighter lights, the dedicated light that takes over the the whole handguard function is quite outdated. Not for me.

Is there a better hardware option than reusing the factory slotted screws? Really don't like the slotted screw heads...