Posted: 10/13/2005 4:20:08 AM EDT
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Ok tin foil hat on real tight. I just got a shot gun news ( I usually pick them up every month or two) Anyway I see something I haven't noticed before. They had full aut0 drop in sears for your ar15. ( Which I don't have anyway ). Now I know all about the NFA laws and these seem to be in violation of it. Is this a setup to get you arrested or are they legit? To me it screams scam at best, or 30 years in club fed at the worst. So what is the scoop? |
You CANNOT buy a new lightning link or autosear! You have to buy one that was registered before the '86 deadline. |
Is his name Melbo? Remember guys, we have an excellent Legal forum here. I think you can boy or own one as long as you don't own or have an AR in the house. If you do it becomes intent to make a full auto just by having the gun and autosear in your posession. To each his own on this one. I prefer not to see them around me. |
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I saw that add-It's a new one.The same old one from J.A.M. is still in there too. I would never in a million years order one of those-has set-up written all over it to me. Supposedly they are the older "safety sears" and are legal to own. Full auto was fun when Uncle Sugar was supplying ammo,but I really don't see the need for it. |
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www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/jim_jeffries/jim3.txt The fact that two physically identical autosears can have a different legal identity has given rise to a very dangerous situation in the Title II firearms community. Possessing an unregistered post-November 1981 autosear is possession of an unregistered machinegun. Possession of a pre-November 1981 autosear is simply possession of a 15 piece of steel unless you also possess an AR-15 with M16 parts. Then you are also in possession of an unregistered machinegun. In short, the only AR-15 autosears worth $120 are those which were registered with BATF before the May 19, 1986, ban on further production of privately owned machineguns (18 U.S.C. section 922(o)). Any other autosears are not only worthless commercially, but will constitute possession of an unregistered machinegun if found (by a jury) to have been manufactured after November 1, 1981. Assuming you had no incriminating AR-15 with the tell-tale M16 parts, how would you prove your autosear was one of the pre-November 1981 curiosities? By a "letter of authentication" supplied by a merchant engaged in a patently illegal solicitation? Right. I am unaware of any forensic test which can establish that the date of production of an autosear was prior to November of 1981. But a BATF toolmark examiner could easily establish that it was milled on a specific machine which did not exist in 1981. Keep in mind also that even if you had irrefutable proof of the pre-1981 provenance of your sear, the only thing that keeps it from being an unregistered machinegun is a unilateral (and not very logical) 1981 ruling by BATF which it could revoke tomorrow. In other words, you are not legally protected by a statute or a Treasury Regulation, but rather by an internal ruling by BATF which does not have the force of law and which can be changed in a heartbeat. |