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Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)
1. Do you realize you are perpetuating a lie?
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 10:53 AM
Apr 2013

You CANNOT purchase a fully automatic weapon at a gun show or anywhere else without a background check.

Robb

(39,665 posts)
2. No, actually, you are.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 10:58 AM
Apr 2013

Semi-automatic rifles are sold at the same tables as full-auto conversion kits. By vendors operating under the guise of private sellers, without performing background checks.

They'll even help you assemble them.

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
8. I think you are confused.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 02:32 PM
Apr 2013

The CMMG kits are for semi autos, not selective fire. Perfectly legal.

The lower receiver is what is serialized. The rest are addons to make the rifle what you want it to be.

http://www.cmmginc.com/default.asp

Robb

(39,665 posts)
10. Not all of them. And you've never seen an auto sear at a gun show?
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 09:44 PM
Apr 2013

Or a $30 "drilling template" with instructions?

ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
11. Please show where the CMMG products are selective fire. I do not believe you can
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 11:05 PM
Apr 2013

I have not seen a true drop in auto sear in decades, something about the 1981 BATF actions followed by 1986 ban. Current BATF design requirements makes easy mods almost impossible. An example of that is the difference between the A and B model of the Uzi carbine.

http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/dias.html is a good discussion of about DIAS

is a good video about how auto sears work

Clearly the drilling template you cite is not nearly enough for a selective fire conversion


The reality is that the BATF has actually been effective in limiting the availability and efficacy of home grown conversions

Robb

(39,665 posts)
12. I'll admit I haven't been to one in about that long.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 11:48 PM
Apr 2013

However, as you have pointed out, these are durable goods. The parts are available, the skills not out of reach. YouTube videos abound these days that demonstrate -- prefaced with all the reasons why it must not ever be done lest agents break down your door.

But, again as you've noted, as a community it's not well known for unquestioning compliance to laws that are difficult to enforce -- such as what you do in your own basement with legally purchased tools and parts.

midnight

(26,624 posts)
6. I thought Al Qaeda was a created threat to be use to manipulate our emotions/laws.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:10 PM
Apr 2013

Old footage from 2011 and American Al Qaeda sympathizers... is what this is about... Who and how does one fall into this category...

Regardless on what side of the issue you find yourself on with guns.... Start asking yourself why the jobless in this country and their safety or lack of safety is not as important as this gun issue...


 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
7. LMFAO That's enough bull shit to make a sewage plant overflow.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:07 PM
Apr 2013

What's next ...the NRA stomps on baby ducks. Hey how about "Lockheed Martin is the NRA's largest contributor" or "NRA introduces a bill to make all non gun owners obey Sharia law".

Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)
9. You should probably re-post this...
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 04:54 PM
Apr 2013

...in the Gun Control forum so people can't post the inconvenient truth.

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