Should be somewhere here....
http://www.atf.gov/publications/firearms/nfa-handbook/
If not, maybe it was in some letter they sent out...
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Should be somewhere here....
http://www.atf.gov/publications/firearms/nfa-handbook/
If not, maybe it was in some letter they sent out...
When you rotate it to the Auto position and pull the trigger, does it act like it's on safe?
I'm pretty sure that ATF says any part "solely" usable in a FA gun is illegal, that would be the auto sear in the case of the M16, plays into the M16/ AR bolt carrier question. State laws are another matter.
Most likely the hammer will simply follow the carrier closed without the auto sear to delay it. Last time I saw one that did fire "automatically" without the auto sear was one the ATF taped up to delay the hammer.The definition of machinegun also includes a combination of parts from which a machinegun can be
assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person. An example of a firearm
meeting this section of the definition is a semiautomatic AR15 rifle possessed with an M16 bolt carrier,
hammer, trigger, disconnector and selector. If the semiautomatic AR15 is assembled with the described
M16 parts and the rifle is capable of fully automatic fire, the weapon possessed in conjunction with the
M16 parts, whether assembled or not, is a machinegun as defined.
Last edited by Tweak; 05-07-12 at 01:30.
So let me reiterate this one more time. I am pretty sure that installing a full auto FCG would only be an issue should the weapon indeed do so.
Now, I can verify 100% that if you install a full auto trigger, hammer, disconnector and selector lever in your weapon it will fire at a minimum in bursts and even full auto.
I have video demonstrating this, but I don't feel like uploading it to the net. In any case you are treading on thin ice and it would surely suck to end up like David Olofson.
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Sorry, but I have seen it done on confiscated guns. They did fire a few rounds and then stop.
Iraqgunz mentioned Olofson in his post. Olofson's gun had f/a parts minus the auto sear which would be the same situation I described. (the f/a hammer operates the same as a semi hammer if an auto sear is not installed and a f/a bolt carrier is merely added weight without an auto sear.) At the range, with the selector in the f/a position, Olofson's gun, on more than one occasion, fired 3 to 4 round bursts before malfunctioning. That is why law enforcement was notified in the first place.
ETA:
Please go to page 9 of the below linked PDF to find a statement of facts in Olofson case. These facts are agreed upon by both sides. That day, at the range on more than one occasion Olofson's gun fired 3 to 4 rounds f/a then malfunctioned.
http://gunowners.org/fs0806.pdf
Last edited by az doug; 05-07-12 at 02:18. Reason: added a pdf link
Contact LMT. I had a BAD-Ambidextrous safety that would rotate a full 360, they sent me a new core, and no more problem. It sounds like a fluke.
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