Your Answer to a quick and cheap supressed look!

[ladder13]

As far as the ATF is concerned, if it's capable of reducing the sound signature, it's a suppressor. It matters not that you weren't using it in a manner that would reduce the sound signature. It matters not that you had no intent of ever using it as a sound suppression device. Not to sound paranoid, but the ATF is one organization that you DO NOT want to butt heads with. You will lose, I guarantee it.

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A friend recently offered a short barrel upper for an AR to me. Did a bit of investigation, and found out that merely possessing one, with a lower for it which I do, is a felony. Didn't need to be installed atop the lower, just the fact that it was in the house made it illegal. I believe it's called "ready made or ready accessible".The only way to make it legal, was to get the lower registered as an NFA weapon, which will never happen here in NY. I may have slightly misstated something here, but you get the idea.
NEVER mess with the ATF.

 

[Thomas_H]

ding ding ding

A friend recently offered a short barrel upper for an AR to me. Did a bit of investigation, and found out that merely possessing one, with a lower for it which I do, is a felony. Didn't need to be installed atop the lower, just the fact that it was in the house made it illegal. I believe it's called "ready made or ready accessible".The only way to make it legal, was to get the lower registered as an NFA weapon, which will never happen here in NY. I may have slightly misstated something here, but you get the idea.
NEVER mess with the ATF.

Actually, you just need a pistol lower.

 

[ladder13]

Thanks Thomas, I was told that. I have no use for an AR pistol though.

 

[Brett248Vista]

Ladder,

I did some recent research on that issue myself. I was curious what the law said about possessing the 3 round burst trigger (just the trigger group) illegal. Falls under readily made/readily accessible.

Certainly not worth going to club Fed over this stuff, and like Thomas said, you butt heads with the ATF, BATF, BATFE (or whatever the Acronym is this week) you will lose, kind of like fighting the IRS.

 

[ladder13]

Brett, I'm not familiar at all with NFA stuff, because I can't have any here in NY. I just happened to find out about the short upper because it was offered to me. I know in Pa you can own NFA weapons. Don't know if a "trigger group" needs to be registered. Perhaps someone else can answer that.
I think there's a Forum, specifically for NFA weapons, may be the place to ask.

 

[BELT_FED]

Brett, I'm not familiar at all with NFA stuff, because I can't have any here in NY. I just happened to find out about the short upper because it was offered to me. I know in Pa you can own NFA weapons. Don't know if a "trigger group" needs to be registered. Perhaps someone else can answer that.
I think there's a Forum, specifically for NFA weapons, may be the place to ask.

what you would need to buy is a transferable sear.. probably 10-15,000 bucks lol(limited amounts out there) then you would need a 200 dollar tax stamp for it... anything that is manuf. past 1986 that makes a weapon fire more than 1 shot per pull of the trigger is illegal period(for civillians) completed machine guns fall into this also.. suppressors do not.. you can build your own suppressor as long as you do the paper work first and get your stamp before you start on it..(assuming its legal in your local area)