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Originally Posted by LouBoyd
The only reason not to use a 10" barrel are legal reasons under Federal and state laws. I don't know how a back bored barrel (or a permanantly affixed extension) for use with or without a suppressor would be treated legally.
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When I purchased my can, I had the opportunity to meet and talk with the designer/owner of Sound Technology, Mark White. He also sold a dedicated suppressed .22 that he liked to call a "pocket" rifle. The barrel had been shortened to 5" and then a tube was then welded to the base of the barrel where it mated to the receiver, then was ground and finished to look like a ll barrel. According to him, the tube was part of the barrel and did not require a tax stamp as a SBR as long as it was the required 16". Subjective but from a good source.
I'm thinking that the length of a rifle barrel isn't the length of rifling but the length of the tube. But I don't know for sure.
Paul