

If you wanted to add a folding or collapsible stock, then 922r would kick in.

It really doesn't for the M1 for configurations that include the pistol grip and extended mag tube. You are correct when 922r compliance applies. May I add both pistol grip stock and extension without having to add the 3 US made parts? As far as I am aware, no one makes US made trigger group parts for the M1. In which case 3 US made parts had to be installed. The only 922r that I have read up on was for the HK USC when converting to the UMP lower. My understanding of 922R was that in order for me to add a pistol grip stock and the magazine extension, that I must add 3 US made parts. With this in mind, if you wish to add a pistol grip and extended mag tube to your M1, then you are riding the precedent set by the early HK imported guns that established this configuration as legally imported, thus legal to convert to under 922r. This is frequently misinterpreted as a 922r effect when it was actually the AW ban.

Under this true ban, M1s could have either a pistol grip or a 7-round capacity, but not both. ATF was somewhat loose with their opinions of "sporting purpose" during the early 1990s and consequently the M1 line was in fact imported and distributed with pistol grips and 7-round mag tubes from 1990 until 1994 when ATF tightened import regulations to comply with the Clinton AW Ban. It merely prohibits doing so if that configuration is not legal to import. The other aspect here is that 922r doesn't outright prohibit adding pistol grips, extended mags, etc. Anything marked BenelliUSA is decidedly post 922r. An HK import may be pre-922r, but it doesn't mean it's definitely pre-922r as HK imported the Benelli line well into the late 1990s. This would include nearly the entire M1 production run.

It's certainly a law, but it doesn't ban anything.Īny rifle or shotgun imported after is subject to 922r. 922r is not a ban, so to refer to "pre-ban" and "post-ban" only confuses the issue.
