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Originally Posted by Choker
I used to look down on AR-15's, thinking the guys who bought them were pussies who couldn't handle a real gun. Hell my kids outgrew 22's when they were 12. LOL. Nothing like the bang and stopping power of a 7.62 coming out the barrel of a quality made Russian AK. Tough and heavy, like a gun is supposed to be.
But then I bought a few AR15's last weekend at a gunshow. Holy fucking shit what a incredible weapon. Light as a feather, no recoil, and who cares if the rounds have half the power of a AK, hell you can carry 3 times as much ammo with you, and fire much more accurately than with a AK. AR-15 should be called Lego-15. I love the way everything is snap together on these guns. Change a barrel in 30 seconds? Wow. Convert it from a pistol to a rifle in 60 seconds. Fucking awesome. No wonder so many guys love these guns.
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Hey, Choker, I don't want to see you get into trouble, so you need to very carefully review The National Firarms Act:
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/nfa/
It is this way; if you build a rifle from an unspecified AR-15 receiver it IS a rifle and will ALWAYS be a rifle under ATF rules. If you put a top on the receiver with a barrel length of LESS than 16" you have constructed a "Short Barrelled Rifle" and comitted at least THREE felony violations under the act; namely:
(1) Construction without an approved Form One. (You ain't done this:
http://www.titleii.com/pdf/NewF1.pdf ).
(2) Possession of an Unregistered Firearm under The Act; namley. a Short Barrelled Rifle.
(3) Construction of a Fiream under The ACT without payment of the "Making Tax" of $200.00.
Each of these violations are what we call "Five And Tens"; five years and $10,000.00 EACH.
If you build an AR-15 PISTOL from an unspecefied receiver, it is a PISTOL forever and you cannot install a shoulder stock; See: "Short Barrelled Rifle".
It's like this, you can put a long top on a pistol but you cannot put a short top on a non-NFA rifle.
You cannot put a shoulder stock on a pistol.
Be very, very careful about the interernals that you use, as a double-hooked M-16 hammer used by mistake causes the rifle or pistol to be classified as an unregistered machine gun, even though the hammer alone will not cause the rifle or pistol to fire in any kind of full-auto mode.
You cannot put a vertical foregrip on a pistil; See: "Any Other Weapon" under the NFA.
Check out this guide to construction of AR-15 type rifles, it is accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15#L...ts_of_an_AR-15
And here:
http://www.ar15.com/content/legal/AR15-M16Parts/
No Federal registratioin is required for contruction of Non-NFA rifles and pistols but state or local laws may.
Best wishes for safe and LEGAL construction and shooting!