re: Updated: Full auto lower laws.. Answer from ATF on page 2

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Reason for owning a 10" barrel: For all lawful purposes, your honor.

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I think what he's going after here is that very narrow set of circumstances in various hypos that are sometimes presented (and, so we're completely clear, I defer to Prop ON VIRTUALLY ALL OF THIS because I'm an amateur and he's a professional - that's just the way it works):

If a guy has 4 completed lowers, no stamps, nothing hinky, just 4 completed lowers - all rifles/carbines. AND he has 4 completed uppers - all 10.5s with removable muzzle devices. He has no stamps, no "legal" uppers - literally no way for him to complete a weapon that does not run afoul of the ludicrous provisions of the NFA.

SO - they would attempt to make a case against him for constructive possession in that very narrow set of circumstances. "All lawful purposes" might win out, but they also might get someone to draw the inference.

Ditto for getting caught in a vehicle with a completed lower (no stamp) and a 10.5" - the whole point of the constructive possession is so that folks cannot get around the ludicrous law by merely disassembling the thing.

However, as Prop correctly suggests - the mere possession of a 10.5" cannot be sufficient to establish intent, as there are a shite ton of completely legal end uses for it. There would have to be "other" evidence of this intent to create an illegal SBR other than mere possession. Otherwise, the retailers, postal carriers, just everyone involved in a whole chain of events would be criminalized for literally doing nothing.