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Taper pins have been used in machinery since the 1800s.
My 70 year old lathe has taper pins in it.
Have you tried any industrial supply sources in Germany?
EDIT: Larry Potterfield & gang (Midway) are idiots not to ship because it's an industrial part...
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But they are marketed as "fireams parts" and likely fall under ITAR as dumb as that is, especially to a "friendly" country.
Many things that can be "legal" fall under the "illegal" or "restricted" catergory strictly due to the way they are advertised or marketed. For example: Is that a bong for smoking weed? Or a water pipe for "tobacco use only"? Same thing, different intent/marketing completely changes the legality. Again, absolute horse trash..but unfortunately that's what we are dealing with.
ITAR licensing/exporting "war materials" is freaking expensive..Is the comparatively small, anti freedom/communistic European market worth it? In Some of these countries, folding knives with locks are illegal! God forbid the knife lock open..it is fine to have something you are more likely to injure yourself with in use, as long as it is as unpractical as possible to defend yourself or hurt someone else (including an attacker) with.
The juice is likely not worth the squeeze for Midway, that's .gov's fault (both ours and theirs) not Midway's.
OP mentions A1 sight as what he's wanting to install, so I'm guessing maybe take off parts? Or going for some kind of retro build? Otherwise straight pins (solid or spiraled) can do the same thing and should easily be found and/or made without "firearms parts" restrictions. An added benefit would be less disruption and deformation of the bore v.s. a taper pin forcibly wedged between the FSB and barrel. AK's use straight solid pins for multiple barrel mounted components without issue, granted they are installed with a light press fit.