Not to stir the pot or anything, seriously, but now they can right? In today's day and age of computer forensics and the like, you just dimed yourself out if it came to an investigation. Just a reminder to people that this isn't a private forum. Why invite the trouble if you can avoid it?
I'm not sure how what you wrote is in response to what I wrote.
If a lower was sold at retail in July of 1994, how can someone tell if it was first built into a rifle in August of 94 or December of 94? Or December of 2004 for that matter.
Everything I say on this forum is made on the assumption that it is being read by federal, state, and local law enforcement. I never advocate breaking the law. I do however advocate exercising your rights FULLY within the law.
I don't understand what you mean by "dimmed yourself out of it". Seriously, please explain.
I also don't understand what you are referring to when you mention computer forensics? Are you implying that what I wrote above was somehow incriminating? If you are, you are mistaken. Its perfectly legal for me to remake a preban gun anyway I want, provided it stays within the law regarding bbl length, overall length, and things like that. It was in an AW configuration prior to the ban by virtue of its flash hider, bayonet lug, and threaded bbl.
For a lower that was sold as a receiver and not as a rifle to be legal, it only has to exist as a functional AW for a minute for it to be legal. So again, it would be the state's responsibility to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that way back in 1994 the gun was not or could not have been built into a functional pre-ban style rifle by the ban date.
Unless the receiver was sold at retail as a receiver a day before the ban went into effect, this would be nearly impossible to do.
Again, I'm going to ask the community at large. Do you know of a single instance of someone who owns an otherwise legal pre-ban gun that was prosecuted because he could not prove that it had been built into an AW by the ban date? I'll be waiting.
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Well if it's Bushmaster, they could always subpoena them to get the records of it being pre or post ban.... I guess thats why some people recommend you buy a pre-ban lower made by a defunct company, good luck proving exactly when it was made.
That only tells them how it was sold. If it was sold as a receiver 2 months prior to the ban date, they would still need to prove that it had not been built into an AW by the ban date.
If some kind of ban goes into effect that further restricts the configuration of AR15s, lets call it post post ban or ppban for short. Then I will go to the range with all my new post ban lowers and assemble each into a functional firearm, video tape myself taking a few shots with each, then reinstall the parts into the next lower. I'll then file an FA10 for each. This is not incriminating. Its about working WITHIN how I anticipate any future ban will be interpreted. The above is purely speculative. We don't really know if/how any future restrictions will be written.
Don