Buttstock

They say an officer saw a buttstock of a long gun between Mitchell's legs, and that Mitchell dropped his hands out of view from the officers and toward the buttstock.

Equipped with a standard buttstock, the “pistol” would be an NFA firearm.

The AK-74 is approximately 37.12 inches long, though a North Korean rifle could have a shorter overall buttstock and overall length to suit shorter North Korean soldiers.

Some of these could be due to user error, as a Sten would fire if the bolt closed on a live round if the buttstock is tapped.

The belly of the buttstock is injection-molded to form an underhook for the support hand while shooting.

This is likely not problematic when firing from a buttstock-equipped EVO 3 A1, but it’s altogether different when shooting it as a pistol.

A shotgun is defined as a weapon (with a buttstock ) designed to be fired from the shoulder.

Defensive shotguns sometimes have no buttstock or will have a folding stock to reduce overall length even more when required.

It had a spring-powered, removable tube magazine in the buttstock which held seven rounds and could be reloaded by inserting spare tubes.

The buttstock was lengthened by convert.

The new buttstock became ten times stronger than the original due to advances in polymer technology since the early 1960s.