Quote Originally Posted by CS1983 View Post
Personally, I dunno that I'd bother trying to hunt with it unless I was going to SBR it. Get enough of a dickhead wildlife officer and he might even consider a foam bumper on the pistol tube to be an "attachment".
ATF classification is helpful to clarify pistol vs rifle, but I don’t think having it under ATF SBR status does anything to negate the 16” minimum barrel length hunting regulation.

I run my AR pistols as bare buffer tube while hunting. Don’t care to be a legal test case.