Nav4 Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 Hi All. This is my first post here and it's a question. On the SA pistol that was produced in the '80s by AO . I believe it was a 1927 A5 and marked as a pistol on the receiver . I'm interested in buying one but only if the stock barrel which I recall was 13" or maybe 131/2" can be changed to the 101/2" barrel with the Cutts compensator. Is this something that can be legally done? I'm aware that this pistol is " exempted" if that's the right word from the under 50oz rule and wonder if any mods such as a shorter barrel would void the exemption. It seems to me reasonable thing to beable to do since any regular pistol can have virtually any barrel shorter than 16" , but this is not a regular case I guess. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nav4 Posted September 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 Well I could finally do a search ( for some reason the search function wouldn't work for me last night) and I found out the answer. Just as I suspected It can't be done until the receiver is registered as an AOW with the ATF. I'm glad I found this board before I did something stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nav4 Posted October 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Just a follow up - I bought the A5 today anyway. I bought it basically to round out my 1927 semi -auto Thompson collection ; I've got an A1 ( Kahr, which I'm not impressed with) an A3 22cal West Hurley which I do like ,cause it runs well and has a nice butt stock and now this A5 pistol. Well the followup question I have is this : With respect to the A5 is there anything that can be done to the barrel , such as adding a Cutts device or better yet adding a modified device similar to the Project X compensator that was added over the barrel but was flush with the end hence seeming to make it shorter? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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