No, please, no.
If you want a rifle, buy or build a rifle.
If you want a braced pistol, buy a pistol (and know that it could become randomly illegal in the coming months/years).
If you want a SBR, buy a SBR and pay your $200 fee.
Hmmm. Maybe my post wasn't clear.
An ar type lower can be used for a rifle or a pistol. However, if it's purchased as a rifle initially, then it can't be changed to a pistol legally. So therefore the pistol offers more flexibility. You can buy an ar pistol with or without a brace and later if you decide, you can pin a rifle length upper to it and install a stock. However, you can't put a short barrel on a lower purchased as a rifle, even if you take the stock off, unless you go through the additional SBR process.
Even if braces become illegal, then you can still convert that pistol to a rifle without any additional paperwork by using a rifle length barrel and stock.
I hope no one thought I was suggesting to do anything illegal. I'm just correctly stating that there is more flexibility if you purchase an ar (stripped lower, complete lower or complete firearm) as anything but a rifle.
But if this is too hokey then I retract... We learn something new everyday.
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