Ok so I think he may be a bit confused or I am about 922 compliance... here was his reply to my suggested sites for him:
"i guess the main issue is not getting just the furniture for mak 90's, but however making sure they are from outside the us for 922 compliancy...i dont really understand it fully, but i heard i need to have a certain amount of parts be non-us made to keep it inside the requirements for a post ban receiver"
I thought you could change out most things on one much like an AR but keeping the stock, receiver, muzzle, etc within compliance. Can anyone shed some knowledge for me and my buddy. BTW he is not in MA, he is in CO.
922R is a different ballgame, and he has it backwards. If he wants to maintain 922R compliance, he may have to make other alterations to the rifle, eg, changing out the trigger group or piston to US parts, not foreign parts.
A halfway decent page that breaks it down:
http://home.comcast.net/~navy87guy/home/922r.html
Note that if he lives in free america, he can just use newer US made mags (eg, US Palm, Tapco, etc) with his gun, he can basically get 3 parts that way all by itself just for the magazine. The downside of this is if he ever puts a cheap foreign AK mag in his gun, he may take his rifle out of compliance while it is in the gun.
It's also worth noting that there is basically ZERO USC 922R case law. The only case I could find where it
actually got enforced by BATFE was a gunsmith who had a bunch of chinese M1A parts in his shop that he
was building rifles from. BATFE tacked on a 922R charge because it was clear that he had "assembled" the
rifle in such a non-compliant configuration. It is unclear to me at this time whether or not the law is
enforceable only against said "assembler" or unilaterally affects the legality of the rifle even for possession
purposes.
The laughable part of USC922R is every gun show in america, and every third gun shop probably has several non compliant rifles floating around in it, and BATFE is typically at the bigger shows and they either ignore these completely or don't care. If anyone has ever seen an SKS with duckbill mags on it, and a choate side folder/pg stock on it, there's a 99% chance the rifle isn't compliant... but yet nobody seems to care.
As usual, of course, he must proceed at his own peril. Although this law is never, or rarely enforced, it still
is a (potential) federal felony.
ETA: Here's a "fun" thread on Falfiles discussing the nuances of 922R... probably more than what your friend needs...
http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=261731
IIRC there's another thread on that board somewhere, where one of the admins/mods or some other prominent
user offered up $1000 if anyone could find a prosecution based soley on USC 922R. As far as I know that
reward went unclaimed.
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-Mike
