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Meh, why worry about it. Trump, the bastion of RKBA freedom, will put a stop to this non sense.
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If the upper is the firearm, then the lower is not a firearm.
I would buy a bunch of non-firearm lowers, for my bolt-action ARs, of course. |
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This fits the XMG ruling, abet it is still bullshit.
I can see this as a way to clamp down on Glock 80s, since you can probably fire a glock slide like a zip gun by holding the safety plunger up and pulling the striker back by hand. |
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Um, reading sounds like the design presented to them functions awfully close to a bolt gun
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What if they apply the same logic to sxs or o/u shotguns. Suddenly your Beretta Silver pigeon need a registered firearm approval if you want to swap from a 12ga to 20ga to shoot skeet.
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My understanding is that this was already the case in certain circumstances.
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If you want to try and make sense of what the ATF is thinking, you have to have someone hit you in the head with a 2x4 as hard as they can first
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But it looks like the key is that the upper is bolt action. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Well, I see there point with the 50 cal upper but they can easily bend that to any caliber upper. so.....FTATF A semi upper with the gas system shut off would be similar. |
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers. View Quote *Edit* You know, I dont even know why I try... At three pages, someone obviously already beat me to it... |
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Yeah, that bridge was crossed millions of miles ago. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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I think this is where the AR screws with the law. The hammer and the firing mechanism are in the lower receiver while all the other associated parts are in the lower receiver.
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I wonder how this effects people who have an upper on order with Safety Harbor.
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This isn't even the first time they've done this, they ruled the BRP XMG upper was also a firearm in and of itself. This made it legal to use on a standard semi auto lower but illegal to use on a transferable M16 lower. View Quote Also yo clarify, originally it was fine on an M16. ATF changed their ruling after i had mine for two years. |
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really dont care what they think, give it 6 months, somebody will have an 80 percent upper that can be completed and there thought will be moot View Quote Push back on this type of shit, everywhere, every time. |
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Looks like my blowback .22 upper will fall into this after looking at the wording
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It’s a good thing the ATF has no legislative power, and any attempt to further undermine the Constitution while infringing upon inalienable rights should be treated as an act of sedition. Fuck all of our three letter agencies and their anti-american rhetoric. Maybe POTUS will wake up and realize it’s time to hit the reset button on this snakes.
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so the upper on a traditional AR is a straight pull bolt.action without a gas port drilled or an adjustable gas block off position.
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So the ATF giving precedence of the qualifier in the law doesnt worry you? Any AR upper is like this. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers. This doesn't change anything. OP wanted to start a panic. That part of a firearm which provides housing for the hammer, bolt or breechblock, and firing mechanism, and which is usually threaded at its forward portion to receive the barrel. 27 CFR § 478.11. This thread is fear mongering bullshit. |
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers. View Quote |
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The only part that matters is what part contains the FCG. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers. |
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Unless i missed something it's no different from a bolt action .22 in that where the manually actuated bolt rides is a receiver.
As much as it pains me to admit it I'm thinking that the FATF is correct in this instance. |
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Who in the wide wide world of sports wrote a letter to the ATF?
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers. View Quote This nit picking about absolute bs to construe and infringe on our 2nd Amendment rights is absolutely disgusting and insulting. It is the very definition of infringement. So how about NO! It's time to shut the ATF down and give their actual responsibilities to a body that won't abuse them like they do. They aren't law enforcement, they think they are law makers. So wrong. |
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@backbencher this would also apply to 5.7 uppers and the Lyndon, no?
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