Making an ultra-lightweight stock legalities?

[Wes]

Hi folks,

Borrowing an idea from one of the other guys here, just asking about the legalities of it though. I don't have a picture, hopefully my description is enough for your imagination...

The idea is for making the absolute lightest possible stock for a rifle. Think of something that is like a skeletal frame only made out of aluminium only, or whatever is suitable.

Basically just a short foregrip, trigger guard and recoil pad held together by the thinest frame possible. Make sense?

This is a really bad example, but imagine this in the shape of a rifle stock with an action bolted on.

Metal frame

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Any reason this wouldn't be legal?

[Broom]

I get it...

Subject to normal lengths and not making a "shortened" firearm I can't see why there would be any probs?

[Broom]

I'd be interested if you could work out a weight figure from your plans.

Not knocking it, just a light synthetic stock is only a few hundred grams. I wonder how much if anything you could really shave off?

[Chronos]

It would be interesting to see the finished weight, I wouldn't think you could make it lighter than a tikka lite.

And even then what would it be like to shoot and would accuracy suffer?

I say give it a crack mate, no one ever invented anything good copying what everyone she was doing.

Chronos

[yoshie]

As long as you don't paint it black

[Lorgar]

As long as you don't paint it black

Scary black aside. As long as you didn't make it collapsable I don't think there is a problem.

[Wes]

Thanks guys.

I can live with it not being black

Not looking to make it collapsable, just a regular one piece stock.

I'm keen to give it a go. I get that Tikka Lite is already real light, even if it ends up not saving much if any weight with the stock half the point of the idea is to do something new. Do something different.

It's all fun, right?

[Farmjer]

You could have a look the Colt M2012 for inspiration.



That's the gist of the idea, right?

The M2012 itself is actually a pretty fkn big rifle, but the ideas the same, just scale it down.