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Posted: 3/12/2009 3:15:38 PM EDT
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if the day ever comes where there will be recievers in stock...how do they ship it to a ffl dealer..is it cut in half..and why..
why cant they just sell the FFl guy the reciever stripped. Or am i asking the wrong type of question i guess.. im just interested in building an ak of my own someday..and needed to know the process!! thanks ~joshua |
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so what are all these stories about gettin a receiver cut in half or sumthin or other? is that just for transfer or sumthin? when you buy a 100% receiver you will have it shipped to an FFL nad it will be transfered like any other firearm. when you buy an AK kit it will often come with some/all of the pieces of the orginal receiver that was cut into 3+ parts which must be removed during the demilling process to rebuild on an USA made receiver. |
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What your thinking of is a parts kit.
Parts kits are how a lot of AKs come to exist in the US. A parts kit is a select fire military rifle that has be "demilled". The receiver is cut into three peices and the middle peice (the part where the fire control group with it's evil "third hole" sits) is tossed. You take that parts kit and build it into a semi-auto only clone using a US made reciever, which is of course shipped intact. It wouldn't do much good if it was cut in half. If this is your first time around, you should know that you need some special tooling to build an AK - it doesn't just screw together like an AR-15 or a FAL. |
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some times i see these pictures on the thread of these aks with like 1958 stamped on them and i know whats up... I don't think you know "what's up". The year of manufacture has nothing to do with whether the rifle has FA capability. All military issue AKs were FA at the time of manufacture. Once the rifle is cut up, it won't fire at all. When it is rebuilt on a semi auto only receiver it does not have FA capability - no matter when the parts kit was made. |
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What your likely seeing is people who have spent big bucks to build a highly accurate clone. They're still from parts kits built on semi-auto US recievers that they have had all the proper inspection marks stamped on.
ETA: Also, the original trunnion, which has the date stamped on it, is used in builds for stamped receiver AKs. |
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Heres the link to this guys amazing collection... so your telling me these ak's hve the markings but arent full auto http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=4&f=93&t=64490 Looking at pictures sure is fun, but we learn so much more when we read all the words in a post too! 
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