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Posted: 6/24/2017 8:19:59 PM EDT
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Hey guys, so i'm planning on getting my first firearm. I've been doing a lot of my own research, and spending time reading through these forums, to find some pretty knowledgeable and useful info. Anyway, my biggest problem is I live in Cali and i'm 19, and by law here you have to be 21 to purchase a lower receiver (unless it is gifted by a parent/guardian, in which case my family is mainly very left-liberal, so thats a no go). So i'm thinking about buying a complete AR (nothing too fancy) and stripping, attempting to sell parts that I replacing with.
I want to get some outside opinion on this, and if there are any good complete base AR's that would be good for my situation ~Thanks |
| Are you going to get a base AR, then upgrade from there? Not many people, if any in fact, are going to want to buy basic take off parts. Throw them in a ziplok bag and label them so you know what they are. Maybe one day you'll have enough spare parts to build one. |
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My advice, Get the fuck outta CA!!! As soon as you can. May be tough for you. A lot of companies won't even ship compliant stuff to CA anymore. |
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That's actually federal law, so you'd face the same problem in other states.  good to know thanks
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Are you going to get a base AR, then upgrade from there? Not many people, if any in fact, are going to want to buy basic take off parts. Throw them in a ziplok bag and label them so you know what they are. Maybe one day you'll have enough spare parts to build one. |
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Hey guys, so i'm planning on getting my first firearm. I've been doing a lot of my own research, and spending time reading through these forums, to find some pretty knowledgeable and useful info. Anyway, my biggest problem is I live in Cali and i'm 19, and by law here you have to be 21 to purchase a lower receiver (unless it is gifted by a parent/guardian, in which case my family is mainly very left-liberal, so thats a no go). So i'm thinking about buying a complete AR (nothing too fancy) and stripping, attempting to sell parts that I replacing with. I want to get some outside opinion on this, and if there are any good complete base AR's that would be good for my situation ~Thanks |
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Is there a local FFL who can help you out with this? You order whatever. They assemble it there, then transfer to you as a rifle. Most gun store FFLs are not manufacturers though, so they cannot do what you describe. |
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Hey guys, so i'm planning on getting my first firearm. I've been doing a lot of my own research, and spending time reading through these forums, to find some pretty knowledgeable and useful info. Anyway, my biggest problem is I live in Cali and i'm 19, and by law here you have to be 21 to purchase a lower receiver (unless it is gifted by a parent/guardian, in which case my family is mainly very left-liberal, so thats a no go). So i'm thinking about buying a complete AR (nothing too fancy) and stripping, attempting to sell parts that I replacing with. I want to get some outside opinion on this, and if there are any good complete base AR's that would be good for my situation ~Thanks My family was very liberal, and I'm from Cali. I feel your pain. I was 16 in 2012, and really wanted to buy a lower. I had to convince my parents really hard took about a year to buy me a lower... take in mind this was around the Sandy Hook shit. Honestly your best bet would be trying to convince them, or buying a really cheap AR and trying to part it out/ sell them. I live in the Bay Area, and anything fucking related to guns are expensive especially here.... 150$ lowers, I saw a PX4 go for 650... |
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My family was very liberal, and I'm from Cali. I feel your pain. I was 16 in 2012, and really wanted to buy a lower. I had to convince my parents really hard took about a year to buy me a lower... take in mind this was around the Sandy Hook shit. Honestly your best bet would be trying to convince them, or buying a really cheap AR and trying to part it out/ sell them. I live in the Bay Area, and anything fucking related to guns are expensive especially here.... 150$ lowers, I saw a PX4 go for 650... |
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You couldn't pay me enough money to live in CA. Cost of living and taxes are just as retarded as their gun laws. Lived near Monterey for a year and hated it. CA is beautiful but not worth it to me.
Your best bet is to just buy a complete rifle or build an 80% once you're whatever age the CA DOJ allows you to register it at. |
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Buy a S&W Sport II. I think I saw them selling somewhere for under $500. The CA Compliant S&W Sport II is pretty much a standard configuration AR-15 with the "evil features" neutered
Be aware that while it's legal to buy some parts, it is illegal to install them on a CA Compliant AR in many cases (a Felony that turns your CA Compliant Rifle into an "Assault Weapon"). A conviction would mean not more firearms forever. Not worth the risk IMHO. |
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Thank you so much. Yeah I live about an hour north of SF. Convincing them has definitely crossed my mind a few times... ill see what I can do thanks again (: |
| Even if you do manage to get a CA compliant AR-15, you'll never be able to rest. Every week they try to change the laws and make them illegal somehow. You have to stay on top of the news and make sure you don't wake up one day and they've turned you into a felon overnight. As lang as you're in CA, you may as well get a 10/22 and hang your balls up on the wall. When you move to a state that'll let you own the rifle and not try to take them from you, then you get your balls back. |
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