Is it illegal for me to own a short barrel if I “never” put it on one of my long rifles?

Is it illegal for me to own a short barrel if I “never” put it on one of my long rifles?
Also if it is, what about if I own something like a mossberg shockwave, am I allowed to own an extra barrel for that or will the mean atf man shoot my dog?

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WTF

Sorry OP. ATF has been dispatched to shoot your dogs for even thinking that

Memewavers are the new Glockfags

It’s been real brothers

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If you have a short barrel and you don't own any pistols or SBR's, then it'll look pretty fishy and there is the possibility of the ATF slapping you with a constructive intent charge. If you have a pistol or SBR, then it's up to the ATF to prove you put the short barrel on a rifle thus creating an unregistered SBR before they can charge you.

Taking legal advice from Jow Forums is pretty retarded though user

Interesting, I don’t plan on doing any of this, just a thought I had

yes, unless you also own a pistol that just happens to have the same barrel type as the rifle

and even then that won't guarantee you that the ATF will change it's mind and commit doggocide

Maybe you are working on building the perfect AR pistol, you just started with the upper.

>constructive intent
no such thing
educate yourself

You could actually make an underbarrel shotgun out of one of these as long as the host gun has a brace, not a stock.
>M16-length AR pistol with underbarrel shockwave when?

>Don't plan on doing this

Ok user i'll let the ATF know

Constructive possession

>have item and no legal way to use it
>item shows signs of being used
>???

>I just borrowed my friend's pistol lower at the range

It's still an angle that they can use to prosecute. Remember that by the time you're in court you're already fucked, you're just trying to avoid getting fucked any further.

Constructive possession exists outside of firearms as well, specifically with drugs and paraphernalia. It's used to put a lot of people away for many years every day.

To address OP's question.

Taking a full-length shotgun and cutting the barrel below 18" with a saw without a tax stamp is obviously illegal.
Having a full-length shotgun and cutting a 2nd barrel that you can swap on below 18" is still illegal under the constructive possession doctrine, even though it may not be attached at the time it is discovered.
Having a regular Mossberg 500 and a Shockwave (or say a pistol AR and a regular AR) where you could conceivably but the short barrel on the shotgun/rifle receiver is a bit of a gray area. Probably OK because it has it's own receiver so there's an obvious legitimate use for the short barrel, but I can see some opportunistic prosecutor trying it and making your life difficult.

This is a big part of why I'm not too crazy about pistol ARs and the shockwave or other "firearm" shotguns. They seem to exist on very unsteady ground that is liable to shift under my feet, but that's my opinion.

SHALL

>where you could conceivably put the short barrel on the shotgun/rifle receiver is a bit of a gray area.

It's not gray at all. See US v. Thompson center arms co. Court ruled if there is any possible legal configuration that could be made from your shit than it's g2g.

Thanks for the info. Reading up on that case now.

Buy a super shorty user.

So by that logic I can have as many short barrels I want given I have a legal shockwave receiver to put them on?

IIRC yes. You can have any combination of parts that you want as long as you could make one legal thing out of it, even if you could also make illegal things out of it.
So for example if you own a memewave AND a mossberg 500 butt stock you still don't "constructively posses" a short barrel shotgun.