SCAR SBR CQC replacement barrel

[Todd.K]

922r defines how many US manufactured parts are needed to consider a firearm as being US made. Assault rifles and other guns that the ATF deem as not particularly suitable for sporting purposes cannot be imported.

Barrels were added to the import ban to keep cheap AK etc. parts kits from being imported and built with enough US parts to be legal.

[oldpueblonfa]

922r defines how many US manufactured parts are needed to consider a firearm as being US made. Assault rifles and other guns that the ATF deem as not particularly suitable for sporting purposes cannot be imported.

Barrels were added to the import ban to keep cheap AK etc. parts kits from being imported and built with enough US parts to be legal.

A 10 or 14 inch SCAR barrel in an NFA item and doesn't need to comply since it isn't for sporting purposes in the first place. Should be importable.

Didn't need to bring this thread back from the dead.

I've been looking for SCAR parts.

[JoshNC]

A 10 or 14 inch SCAR barrel in an NFA item and doesn't need to comply since it isn't for sporting purposes in the first place. Should be importable.

Didn't need to bring this thread back from the dead.

I've been looking for SCAR parts.

Barrels for non-sporting firearms, which includes NFA-regulated items, are not importable based on ATF's re-interpretation of 922(r) and 922(d)3. This was a change in policy which occurred around 2003 or 2004 (I could be wrong on the date).

Prior to this ATF allowed barrels and receivers of non-sporting firearms to be imported for "repair and replacement" of firearms already in the US. This is why importers were allowed to bring in Imbel FAL receivers, IMI Galil and Uzi receivers, Portugese semiauto G3 receivers, Steyr and Austeyr AUG receivers, and SIG 551 receivers as well as the respective barrels for said firearms.

ATF ultimately put an end to this.

[ikickhippies]

A 10 or 14 inch SCAR barrel in an NFA item and doesn't need to comply since it isn't for sporting purposes in the first place. Should be importable.

Didn't need to bring this thread back from the dead.

I've been looking for SCAR parts.

Don't think so on this one dude. A 10" or 14" barrel in and of itself is not held to the same regard as a silencer or SBR. Neither is a 10" AR-15 Barrel. Anybody can have one shipped directly to their home without involving an FFL dealer or ATF.

[Sean M]

Chopping a SCAR barrel is not as much work as some might think. Gas ports are not too difficult, so long as you don't have your barrel work done by Joe Bob down at the local gun shop, and actually use a professional with the right number of brain cells, and the right tools.

[variablebinary]

Chopping a SCAR barrel is not as much work as some might think. Gas ports are not too difficult, so long as you don't have your barrel work done by Joe Bob down at the local gun shop, and actually use a professional with the right number of brain cells, and the right tools.

Then all you have is an out of spec weapon with a voided warranty, that still lacks spare parts and barrels.

[Sean M]

Yup.

What I have is an out of spec barrel, that is identical to factory 10.3 specs, and runs just as well, both suppressed and un-suppressed.

Agree that FNH would be well served to support the platform with spare components, but there will be other vendors who will be along to make those components FNH doesn't want to release........just as there are with the AR.

Just saying that if one wants to SBR a SCAR, it is not difficult.

[scottryan]

Yup.

What I have is an out of spec barrel, that is identical to factory 10.3

Its not.

[Belmont31R]

Then all you have is an out of spec weapon with a voided warranty, that still lacks spare parts and barrels.

What do people expect when FN's advertising revolves around guns for "us" and guns for "them"?



If you arent part of "them" then you're going to be SOL....



Also notice the same rail/gas block length no matter what the barrel length is. Its not a modular system, and you are stuck with what you get out of the box.

[Robb Jensen]

A 10 or 14 inch SCAR barrel in an NFA item and doesn't need to comply since it isn't for sporting purposes in the first place. Should be importable.

Didn't need to bring this thread back from the dead.

I've been looking for SCAR parts.

Should and is...is two different things. Doesn't work that way bro.

Even many friends of mine who work for a few U.S. Federal law enforcement agencies said that even their agencies couldn't (at least as of a year ago) couldn't even buy new barrels for HK416s, FN 249s, 240s, Mk48s, M2s, M3s etc. They have to get whole guns just to get barrels. All in the name of 'no imported machinegun barrels'. Sometimes it's makes you wonder....