Also, since this has a stock on it that can not be folded away, I believe this is a short barreled rifle. SBR's are not allowed in Michigan. 26" is now the maximum length fora pistol in Michigan.
What does a fixed stock, as opposed to a folding or adjustable stock have to do with its status as an SBR? A firearm with a folding or adjustable stock will generally have a shorter overall length in its shortest configuration than a firearm with a fixed stock, so fixed-stock weapons are less likely to meet the overall length requirement Michigan uses in defining pistols.
The Cx4 appears to have a barrel length greater than 16" and an overall length greater than 26" inches.
Let's have a look at MCL 750.222:
(d) "Firearm" means a weapon from which a dangerous projectile may be propelled by an explosive, or by gas or air. Firearm does not include a smooth bore rifle or handgun designed and manufactured exclusively for propelling by a spring, or by gas or air, BBs not exceeding .177 caliber.
(e) "Pistol" means a loaded or unloaded firearm that is 26 inches or less in length, or a loaded or unloaded firearm that by its construction and appearance conceals itself as a firearm.
(j) "Rifle" means a firearm designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
(k) "Short-barreled rifle" means a rifle having 1 or more barrels less than 16 inches in length or a weapon made from a rifle, whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise, if the weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches.
Unless the specs on Beretta's site are off, this is a firearm and a rifle, but neither a pistol nor a short-barreled rifle.
As the overall length is less than 30", it could have been registered as a pistol until the start of this year.
Was the overall length greater than 30" previously?
