So, having done nothing about this for two and a half years, I got curious the other day about what it would actually take to do this. The first thing I did was email the guy who made the gun, asking if he had any tips on how the original stock was disable and/or still-functional parts kicking around he might want to sell me. Happily, he wrote right back! Unhappily, it was to say that he hadn't worked on one of those in years and couldn't really remember how he'd done that part, but he seemed to recall that either the original disabling process or what you have to do to un-disable it ruins the spring.

So I went poking around to see if anyone else had parts for these things, and lo and behold, I found this.

That's the rearmost five or so inches of a PPS-43 that's been chopped off with what appears to have been an oxyacetylene torch. This is, alas, normal, as it's how these guns have to come into this country. It looks like someone cut this one up to make a parts kit, then sold the rest of the parts without this piece, for whatever reason. But, and this is the important thing, the folding stock mechanism on this one is intact and fully functional.

Which means now I gotta figure out how the hell to take it apart without ruining it, get the old one off the complete gun, and put them together. And, thanks to the... unique... way in which the NFA is worded, I think I have to do it myself. So, that should be interesting.

--G.
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