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transferable RPK question.

underlookedunderlooked Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
edited June 2013 in Ask the Experts
Hello there I'm at the moment considering on buying a transferable class 3 RPK. I'm getting a good deal on it as well. The reason why is it has everything but the bolt and carrier and the trigger group. it is a stamp receiver as well.

so my question is what do I need to make it working? And will AK47 parts make it go boom?

Thank you
have a good day
Duncan..
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No offense meant. But if the RPK your buying is made on a post 1968, US fabbed AK receiver? I wouldn't buy it legal or not, unless I knew it was fabbed out of the correct materials and is functional. Wouldn't buy it unless the seller guarantees functionally, after the required internals are assembled.

    Somebody selling a RPK receiver that is legal. In a stripped condition, when it would be worth so much more money complete. Raises red flags for me.

    If you went and bought the innards, put it together. And then found out it wasn't functional, it would make you unhappy. I have heard all kind of stories about what was happening in 86, when utter pieces of crap were churned out to qualify as class 3's.
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As Rufe has said, we need more information. I am going to guess that it is not an amnesty registred RPK because a "good" price on one of those would be $25,000. Who made the friearm: Ceiner, Hardtimes Armory, Landis, ect.?
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  • underlookedunderlooked Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you for your concern. And im willing to take that risk.
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by underlooked
    Thank you for your concern. And im willing to take that risk.


    The risk you are taking, now, is at least 10,000 times higher, since you posted it on here. If it is not the whole machine, something is way fishy.

    If you knew what it was, you wouldn't need to ask...
    quote:so my question is what do I need to make it working?

    The risk you are taking is not being out money. The risk is prison time, tens of thousands of dollars in fines, and possibly loosing most of what you do own, to pay for lawyer's.


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  • burpfireburpfire Member Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    make sure you see the paperwork before you buy it. someone could have done something as stupid as registered just the bolt, which would explain why it is missing. also make sure where the receiver has the serial number, that it doesn't look welded in that area. a few yrs ago, there were a group of guys that were taking cheap " macs " machineguns and cutting the serial number out of them and re-welding them onto rare guns to make a lot of money. all the guys went to prison, but even the batf has no idea how many guns or what types they did it to.
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  • underlookedunderlooked Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks guys I will look into this some more tomarrow.
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by DRP-AZ


    This post is exactly why this forum sucks.



    Then you won't mind taking a thirty day ban on posting in this forum starting right now. I have asked you several times to play nicely with the rest of the members and I have also warned you of the same but you are simply not up to the task. Now I am done putting up with you. If you want to go over to the other forums and cry to them about how mean I am then feel free as they are already well aware of the rules over on this side of the "hall" (as you call it).
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  • underlookedunderlooked Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I found out the owner registered the receiver, and the auto sear. And that's why he said the parts were all gone but after hearing what yall have told me i'll just save my money and buy a registered sear. instead to be on the safe side.

    Thanks
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by underlooked
    Well I found out the owner registered the receiver, and the auto sear. And that's why he said the parts were all gone but after hearing what yall have told me i'll just save my money and buy a registered sear. instead to be on the safe side.

    Thanks


    A AK isn't like a AR. You just can't put a auto sear into it, as it will be full auto only. You need the internal selective fire mechanism. This will require a Class 3, selective fire receiver that was fabbed prior to May of 1986. After 27 years these are extremely big buck items, even the ones made by the marginal builders.

    Due yourself a favor buy one of the slide fire, ( bump fire ), stocks, while they are still legal. You will have all kinds of expensive fun with it. And when the feds get around to banning them, you will be able to sell it for 3 times what you originally payed for it.

    EDIT #1, Check out the Slide Fire videos on U Tube. They are awesome. If I could get one that was reliable using a 22 LR conversion unit on a AR platform, I would even buy one.

    I can just see Bloomberg, Feinstein and the rest of the libs, getting their panties in a knot watching them videos. Wouldn't be long before they would be leaning on Nobama, Holder and the rest of the losers in DC to get them banned. IMHO.
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  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by rufe-snow


    Due yourself a favor buy one of the slide fire, ( bump fire ), stocks, while they are still legal. You will have all kinds of expensive fun with it. And when the feds get around to banning them, you will be able to sell it for 3 times what you originally payed for it.




    Change of topics a bit, and I suspect this thread will be locked, but I have to ask: On what legal grounds do you see any ban on a "loose-fitting stock that helps one to manipulate a trigger rapidly" being based on? One can bump-fire many semi-autos without the aid of any stock; I just don't see how "trigger manipulation" -- with or without the aid of stock -- to make a semi-auto fire rapidly, can be banned.
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  • tsr1965tsr1965 Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by competentone
    quote:Originally posted by rufe-snow


    Due yourself a favor buy one of the slide fire, ( bump fire ), stocks, while they are still legal. You will have all kinds of expensive fun with it. And when the feds get around to banning them, you will be able to sell it for 3 times what you originally payed for it.





    Change of topics a bit, and I suspect this thread will be locked, but I have to ask: On what legal grounds do you see any ban on a "loose-fitting stock that helps one to manipulate a trigger rapidly" being based on? One can bump-fire many semi-autos without the aid of any stock; I just don't see how "trigger manipulation" -- with or without the aid of stock -- to make a semi-auto fire rapidly, can be banned.





    On those lines, back in 1994, did they not ban certain features, like bayonet lug, flash hider, folding/telescoping stocks, just based on how they looked? I would imagine they can do the same thing with a slide fire stock.

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