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Posted: 5/23/2003 5:45:54 PM EDT
| ...I know this subject has been bounced around here enough, but I'm trying to settle an issue for a guy before he jumps into a pool of sh!t. While at a gun show, he purchased a 'preban' BM lower from an FFL. Supposedly, the FFL stripped the lower from an assembled rifle he had for sale at his table. OK, now the guy buys a 'preban' after market upper from a different party to complete the rifle. I'm not really clear on just how 'stripped' the lower was at the time of purchase. I know it was purchased with a collapsible stock, so I'm assuming all the lower guts were intact. It allegedly was new/unfired. The bottom line is, should there be any concern about mating these two components, thus creating the dreaded 'manufacture of an Assault Weapon' scenario? |
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Quoted: The correct answer is that it SHOULD have had the pistol grip AND a collapsible stock attached to the receiver at the time of purchase to be considered a "grandfathered assault weapon". Actually, that wouldn't meet the definition of "AW". It has to be a complete gun capable of semi-auto fire, which a lower in any configuration is not able to do by itself. But at this point, I don't know that anyone cares. It's becoming accepted, even by the anti's, that the AW ban is gonna be gone in about 16 months... -Troy |
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