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Newbie wants info on folding grips for weird pistol

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#1 ·
Hi, folks. Nice to be around.

I have a question. Y'all might be the place to get an answer.

Several years ago I bought a pair of very weird (@ least to me) single shot break action handguns, one with ~9" barrel in .22, the other with ~5" barrel in .22mag. I bought the critters because of their oddity, & because the one in standard .22 looked like something that might be a nice, very compact little canoe gun with the addition of a light-weight folding stock. The store manager seemed to see them as inseparable, but he went down to $59 for the pair, so I bought both of the things.

These guys are made (I'm pretty sure; the stamping depth & spacing is extremely uneven) by a company called Rexio in Argentina, & imported by VAM Dist. Co., Wooster, Ohio. Apparently all steel. The external finish is extremely rough. I've been told that they're mimics of a contemporaneous gun made by a larger & better-known company, but that's all I've heard.

Accuracy is surprisingly good. They're both extremely precise in bullet placement & have unusually high quality adjustable rear & front (banded-on adjustable Partridge-style) sights. The pair of sight sets is reusable, & is probably worth more than the pair of guns they're attached to. Each gun has a little Schnabeled rifle-style forearm (no kidding) made of some dark grey rubber-like compound. The grips are of the same stuff, conform exactly to the shape of the grip frame, & are "cowboy" style & size, resembling those of an 1873 Army.

My question is:

Since the grips look standard, are grip panels to fit this weirdo available on the market that have, or will accommodate, a folding wire frame stock?

Thanks for any input,
John Cooper (theprof.101@me.com)
 
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#3 ·
When you said Rexio, and Argentina, I thought of this one.



If that's the gun, from what I hear they are a pretty nice gun.

Although they are not made in 22 Long Rifle. Maybe you've got an older one, but currently they come in 45 Colt, 22 magnum, and 410 shotgun.
http://www.rexioarms.com.ar/

This, however - >looked like something that might be a nice, very compact little canoe gun with the addition of a light-weight folding stock.< - is a REALLY BAD PLAN. If you attach a shoulder stock, without getting prior permission, to a rifled firearm with a barrel length of less than 16 inches, you have made an illegal "Short Barreled Rifle", which is good for ten years in the Federal lockup and a quarter-million-dollar fine. Getting permission before you do it requires payment of a 200-dollar tax. For each gun, so if you want to put a stock on both of 'em it's 400.
 
#4 ·
When you said Rexio, and Argentina, I thought of this one.



If that's the gun, from what I hear they are a pretty nice gun.

Although they are not made in 22 Long Rifle. Maybe you've got an older one, but currently they come in 45 Colt, 22 magnum, and 410 shotgun.
http://www.rexioarms.com.ar/

This, however - >looked like something that might be a nice, very compact little canoe gun with the addition of a light-weight folding stock.< - is a REALLY BAD PLAN. If you attach a shoulder stock, without getting prior permission, to a rifled firearm with a barrel length of less than 16 inches, you have made an illegal "Short Barreled Rifle", which is good for ten years in the Federal lockup and a quarter-million-dollar fine. Getting permission before you do it requires payment of a 200-dollar tax. For each gun, so if you want to put a stock on both of 'em it's 400.
When you said Rexio, and Argentina, I thought of this one.



If that's the gun, from what I hear they are a pretty nice gun.

Although they are not made in 22 Long Rifle. Maybe you've got an older one, but currently they come in 45 Colt, 22 magnum, and 410 shotgun.
http://www.rexioarms.com.ar/

This, however - >looked like something that might be a nice, very compact little canoe gun with the addition of a light-weight folding stock.< - is a REALLY BAD PLAN. If you attach a shoulder stock, without getting prior permission, to a rifled firearm with a barrel length of less than 16 inches, you have made an illegal "Short Barreled Rifle", which is good for ten years in the Federal lockup and a quarter-million-dollar fine. Getting permission before you do it requires payment of a 200-dollar tax. For each gun, so if you want to put a stock on both of 'em it's 400.
 
#6 ·
Alpo:
Thanks for the quick reply. Your photo is an exact match for my .22mag. Company records notwithstanding, the longer barreled gun, the one I want to stick a folding stock on, is marked ".22L. R." (That spacing reproduced as it appears on the left side of the gun on flat slabs separate from but attached to the barrel & just posterior to the rear sight). It says it's .22LR. It shoots .22LR fine. Just looks like hammered D.S. The serial number is 089509.

Federal regulation problems occurred to me but I've seen folding or attachable stocks commercially available for "cowboy action" style revolvers. I realize that the Real World & the world of federal regulation needn't have much to do with one another, but a heavy, long-barreled break-action single-shot .22 doesn't sound like the sort of gun that anyone apart from a squirrel or something like that would have any quarrel with.
 
#8 ·
Federal regulation problems occurred to me but I've seen folding or attachable stocks commercially available for "cowboy action" style revolvers. I realize that the Real World & the world of federal regulation needn't have much to do with one another, but a heavy, long-barreled break-action single-shot .22 doesn't sound like the sort of gun that anyone apart from a squirrel or something like that would have any quarrel with.
Those "cowboy action" style revolvers that you might've seen stocks for are probably black powder cap and ball (percussion) revolvers. By federal definition those are not firearms and are not subject to the NFA34 laws concerning short-barreled rifles that Alpo mentioned above so adding the factory-style detachable shoulder stock is not a legal problem.
Like Alpo mentioned, if you would like to put together such a beast then the only legal road is to start with contacting the ATF and acquiring the permit required to "build" your short-barreled rifle.

And welcome to TFF!
 
#7 ·
Detachable sholder-stocks on revolvers are only legal on cap-and-ball guns.



They are, by federal law, NOT firearms. Guns that used fixed ammo - like yours - however, ARE firearms, and as such cannot have a detachable stock.

Laws do not have to make sense. They just are.
 
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#10 ·
The Rexio was indeed made in .22LR at one time.

Whether it "sounds like" no one would have a problem with your plan, BATF has absolutely no sense of humor on matters like this-unless you do it legally.

As for your question- no, there are no commercially available grips that will do what you want.
 
#11 ·
The Rexio was indeed made in .22LR at one time.

Whether it "sounds like" no one would have a problem with your plan, BATF has absolutely no sense of humor on matters like this-unless you do it legally.

As for your question- no, there are no commercially available grips that will do what you want.
Well,...Pooh. I always liked single-shots. I guess it's back to the 10/22.
The Prof
 
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