BP Pistol Conversion

I disagree. Simply altering the frame does not mean that the frame needs to be registered.
As long as the cap & ball cylinder will still work in the frame, and the conversion cylinder isn't sold or transferred when installed in the frame, then the frame doesn't need to be registered or transferred by an FFL.
 
Ideal Tool said:
There is one thing to keep in mind..if your do any alteration of frame to allow ctg. loading, that gun no longer is considered a black powder arm, but a modern type firearm..and must be registered.
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That discussion has been had on this and other forums ad nauseum. Its NOT true. On the federal level you won't have to do a thing. Depending on where you live with your local laws YMMV.
 
wogpotter,

I can completely understand your frustration concerning your OP in the thread you had started. I skimmed through it quickly. Clearly it was a good move on your part to ask question specific to the BATF to eliminate the noise concerning local law.

Some of the responses to this question, which gets asked often, just aren't logical but are rather based on the individuals perception of how things "should be" or perhaps based on their local laws...which, very smartly, you didn't ask about.

Those who state that a modified cap-n-ball revolver (to accept a conversion cylinder) "must", by law, be registered should help the rest of us understand what they believe the process is. For example, my questions to them would be:

1. Who do I register this modified firearm with?
2. What paperwork or forms (form number) do I need to fill out?

I am in possession of such a firearm. Specifically, I have a replica Walker that I had modified to allow breech loading by use of a gated Kirst conversion cylinder. Have I broken the law by not "registering" it? The gunsmith who did the modification and installed the cylinder shipped it directly to my house from another state. Did he break the law? Was he supposed to send it back to me only through a local FFL?
 
Yes, I was trying to be very specific, both as to Federal law & to not modifying the frame AT ALL. It related to a very specific comment made elsewhere as well & I didn't want to muddy the waters.

I know there have been several posts on various forums where it's obvious (whether the OP in those threads knows it or not) that he is trying to "game the system", that wasn't at all what I was thinking, although it may have been taken that way & the responses angled accordingly!:cool: If I want to run cased ammunition I just shove a .357 Mag in the ol' Dan Wesson & call it good.

I think a lot of confusion exists between JUST dropping in a conversion cylinder & making a cartridge conversion to the frame as well so I tried to be really, really specific about that.

Fortunately the urge has passed & I'll just stuff powder, wad, ball & cap in the .44 Remington & call it good.:eek:
 
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