UMP45 ENTRY

I hear you, but, if the first thing you do on the virgin stripped lower pistol receiver is slide the magazine into the well and install the MEAN lock - then at that point, the AR pistol lower has never been made into a semi-auto pistol/rifle/anything at that point. From whatever point after, If you make it into a semi-auto pistol/rifle, it would then at that point be required to have a permanent fixed magazine or else it would fall under the laws of an assault pistol and the list of characteristics that come along with that status.

I’ll be sure to insert my mag on a stripped pistol lower before installing the MEAN lock and get it on video so nobody can ever tell me it accepted a detachable magazine after being constructed into a semi-auto. By your logic, a 14.5” threaded barrel with a muzzle brake pinned and welded on would still be an AW/SBR in NJ because technically the threaded barrel still exists but is not readily usable. I agree that it could cause some head scratching but I think you’d be hard pressed to find a prosecutor that would persue a case where you can not possibly remove a magazine from a lower without either destroying the lower or destroying the mag lock product.

It’s legal with a MEAN perm mag lock. Top load or load from the ejection port with their side loader. ”Evil” feature list does not apply with the lack of a detachable magazine.

Has anybody made any headway on this “fixed magazine” scenario? If you use the new MEAN arms permenant magazine lock, then I can’t find any single law why we can’t have an AR pistol of our choice. No weight limit, any barrel, any Handguard, any muzzle device, even a brace. Top loading is inconvenient but they even make ejection port loaders and for a range toy it’s not that bad of a thing to deal with. https://www.meanarms.com/products/detail/ma-lock I did some research and the NJ Pistol Permit is just to Purchase a pistol. My local dealer said he’d have to transfer me a factory fresh stripped lower as an “other” firearm. After searching, it is federally legal and totally fine to build an AR pistol lower from a factory fresh stripped lower. Anybody give it a go yet?