Doesn't make sense, an RN50 cant be an AW because it's not semiautomatic.
Not. The. Point.
Maybe there is some semi auto rifle with threads on the ass of barrell, but not aware of it. ...
Ruger's 10-22 and PCC takedown barrels use lugs.
I wonder how deliberate that is?
... It's also pretty obvious that the spew within the law was designed or at least some half-ass intent of trying to get people to not be able to easily attach a flash suppressor or a silencer/sound suppressor to the gun but it's pretty obvious that they didn't think it through very well.... lol.
Absolutely.
Here were my musings:
Consider the clown shows that
are 1911 scope mounts:
Hell, consider the hot mess of AR-15 floating handguards...
If suppressor laws were expressed
purely in terms of "devices that thread onto a muzzle",
someone would long since have invented silencers attached to a receiver-anchored cantilever mess
that held them in front of the barrel (pulled against the crown for a good seal).
I don't even mean attached via a hideous thread on the barrel breech. Rather...
In that alternate universe, I can imagine AFT screwing a Ruger Mk owner
with some cantilever suppressor hack because the barrel is threaded...
...where it attaches to the pipe-receiver (at the RH end in this photo)...
For a pistol a threaded barrel is a feature and have too many and you are a bad person. For a rifle it says flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor. So threads is not enough if they are not designed to accommodate a flash suppressor.
See, there's the distinction. Do these style Ruger target pistols have a "threaded barrel"?
(To help orient folks, that hook-shaped thing hanging off the upper right
is the loading ramp, and the "battle trench" with a curved bottom facing the camera
is the cut for the
extractor LCI).
I'm not saying if they are "threaded barrels" that it means the pistols have too many evil features.
I'm just proposing the thought experiment of what ragtime AFT would use to answer the question.