"(3) Firearms in violation hereof which are lawfully owned and possessed under provisions of federal law are excepted."I'm not entirely straight on that statue.
You reside in Florida and have an SBR tax stamp. Are you now going to destroy your SBR? Federal trumps state law. Will anyone in Florida even care? Still can't comprehend what's legal.
SBR's are illegal in Florida, but if lawfully owned (that is they are not stolen and you are not prohibited from owning) and possessed under provisions of federal law (that is it is federally registered to you or your trust or your company or government entity via a Form 1 or Form 3 or Form 4 or Form 5 or Form 10 or you are federally licensed to make such items), then you, your trust, company, or government entity have an exception to SBR's are illegal in Florida and are free to possess such items with no penalty.
Now, under the rules for registering your braced pistol, you will have a copy of the Form 1 you submitted, which ATF says will suffice as proof until the approved Form 1 is sent to you. There will be no $200 tax stamp affixed to the approved Form 1 since there is no tax to be paid during this registration. Note that Florida statues don't say anything about a tax stamp, that's because, depending upon the Form, there might be no tax liability. Example: Form 5's have no tax liability...that form is used for transfer from an estate to an individual who inherited a NFA item.
Typical law speak: This WHATEVER (it might be) is illegal, but the illegality does not apply under THESE (whatever they may be) circumstances. Let me try an example: It's illegal to carry a firearm into a court room, BUT if you are law enforcement carrying out your duties, you are an exception to that law.
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