09 Sep 2012, 12:36 am
John_Browning wrote:
PM wrote:
John_Browning wrote:
PM wrote:
What I find odd is that when it comes to the Hughes Amendment, the ATF considers this a gun and the only thing that has to be registered before May 19, 1986.
You can do whatever you want with the rest of the weapon.
You can do whatever you want with the rest of the weapon.
A true M-16 receiver is slightly different compared to a AR-15 receiver, and the trigger parts are different. What you are showing is a semiauto.
Machine gun trigger parts are also regulated. For non-NFA items, you only need to have a background check for one major part. A gun won't work without a frame or receiver, and they take time, machine shop equipment, and a degree of skill to produce yourself. If you are not prohibited from having a gun, it is legal in most states (even California) to fabricate a gun in a legal configuration for personal use only. They can be made transferable but that takes a little ATF paperwork and a tax.
That would happen to be the first image of a stripped lower I could find, but I see your point. I have yet to see an automatic sear and lower assembly for sale anywhere on the web.
They were all picked over 25 years ago. When one goes for sale occasionally, it gets snapped up quick and often sells for around $15k.
Sad but true, simple supply & demand.
09 Sep 2012, 2:45 am
PM wrote:
What I find odd is that when it comes to the Hughes Amendment, the ATF considers this a gun and the only thing that has to be registered before May 19, 1986.
You can do whatever you want with the rest of the weapon.
You can do whatever you want with the rest of the weapon.
You know what's really fun? That when that law passed, whoever it was that held the Ingram MAC patents at the time just stamped out a bunch of sheet-metal blanks, put serial numbers on them and registered them with the ATF as machineguns in order get them in under the deadline, and they've just been assembled here and there over the years afterwards. So you can still get a virtually new MAC10/11, it's just been flat for the last few decades waiting for someone to form it from the registered chunk of metal into a functioning firearm.
