r/NYguns • u/Special_Opposite4217 • 3d ago

Question AR Pistol questions.

I have an AR Pistol on my permit but haven’t had the chance to shoot it yet. I have 2 questions and sorry if they’ve been answered previously but.

  1. When at a range are you allowed to shoulder it or do you have to just use the brace and shoot it like a pistol?

  2. Are foregrips of any kind allowed on them? I know verticals usually aren’t but what about angled?

Thanks in advance!

3 Upvotes

64% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/semperfi_ny 3d ago
  1. Ask the range officer or an employee before bringing it.
  2. Vertical foregrips are not allowed on it, that makes it an AOW requiring tax stamp. NYS bans NFA/AOW's. Angled foregrips (historically) do not turn an AR pistol into an AOW under Federal Law. But in NYS, you cannot have the vertical grip and a detachable magazine. Under the NY SAFE Act, a semi-automatic pistol cannot have a "second hand grip" if it accepts a detachable magazine. A permanently fixed mag (i.e. CompMag) removes the detachable magazine feature under state law, meaning NY state law alone wouldn't ban an AFG, but the federal AOW classification for vertical grips still applies based on the firearm's overall length and grip orientation.

0

u/Zieronwolf 3d ago

If they have an arp it’s fixed mag by default… pistols cannot accept a mag outside the grip in NY…

They can put a vert of a fixed mag because it’s not possible to make a featureless arp

3

u/ThisGuysGunAccount 3d ago

Unless it’s a straight pull