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Posted: 10/4/2002 10:52:16 PM EDT
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If a person hypothetically happened to own a SAR1 and then hypothetically got one of those K-var Bulgarian AK74s, and realized that the strange doohickey on the trigger and other strange part were no doubt for select-fire, which is illegal and morally wrong, would one hypothetically be in legal trouble? Would those hypothetical parts be enough in the you-know-who's eyes to constitute intent to have a hypothetical illegal machinegun? If so, what would one hypothetically do? Thanks! |
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i really have no hard answer for this situation. if it were an ar, i could just tell you to pitch the parts in the river. however, the ak seems to get a different treatment. it's that '3rd hole' in the receiver that gets you in trouble. i've never heard of anyone arrested/prosecuted for just having the select-fire ak parts laying around. i think the atf treats the 'intent to construct' (a machinegun) differently than the ar-15. my 2 cents...keep them stored separately from the guns. unless you are building a post may dealer sample, sbr or such...odds are you won't be using them anyway. bottom line, i really don't think you can find a law that says owning the pieces parts is illegal. it's lrgal for k-var to sell them to you and they are legal to possess. |
| It gets weird. AR FCG and carriers can be dropped in by hand and you are in trouble (and the Tapco mailer says FFL rules apply for these). FAL kits come with the FA receiver cut and it is OK because nobody expects you to do the very hard work of swapping ejector blocks to transfer one with the FA sear to you new FAL upper receiver. But I have never heard of AK FA parts being installed without the 3rd hole/pin, which is easily seen from several feet away. |
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