A new legal ruling has paved the way for the return of Franklin Armory’s Reformation. You may remember back in 2018 Franklin Armory launched the Reformation, an AR-15 with Franklin Armory’s patented straight cut land and groove rifling design. This placed the Reformation in a grey area of being neither a rifle nor a shotgun. Franklin Armory argued this meant that as simply a ‘firearm’ the Reformation was not subject to the NFA and could have a short barrel without requiring a Tax Stamp. In 2019, however, the ATF classified the Reformation as a GCA-only regulated short-barrel shotgun – last month this was overturned.