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l1a1 fnfal regulation
ccole23
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I would like to build a stg58 parts gun with a dsa reciever are there still regulations on the parts etc? After the assult weapons bill was not renewed.
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Anything in the "assault rifle" class built here from foreign parts requires compliance parts that are US made.
Do these 17 parts apply to a pre-ban FN?
Prior to 1986 there were legally imported FAL's, AK's and HK's among others. Norinco AK's are a prime example. The above mentioned contain no compliance parts and were imported as built overseas. After the spate of drive by bayonettings, legislators, terrified by the term they coined (assault rifle), sought to eliminate importation of these. Norinco AK's are no longer legally imported, hence the $1600 price tag on some of the existing ones.
If you mean a pre ban kit, there is no such animal. It would be a kit gun assembled pursuant to existing law. Any correlation to pre-post ban would depend on the date of transfer of the receiver, I believe, and since you are planning to build on a DSA receiver it would fall under current law and require compliance parts unless you bought your receiver 20 years ago.
No more than 10 evil parts allowed.
List of evil parts found on a FAL follows:
(1) Receiver
(2) Barrel
(3) Muzzle attachment
(4) Bolt
(5) Bolt carrier
(6) Gas piston
(7) Trigger housings (lower receiver)
(8) Operating rod (charging handle)
(9) Trigger
(10) Hammer
(11) Sear
(12) Buttstock
(13) Pistol grip
(14) Handguards
(15) Magazine body
(16) Magazine Follower
(17) Magazine Floorplate
http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21908&highlight=Evil*
A below is a direct quote from the BATF's FAC section
on building your own:
(A6) Does the GCA prohibit anyone from making a handgun, shotgun or rifle?
With certain exceptions a firearm may be made by a non-licensee provided it is not for sale and the maker is not prohibited from possessing firearms. However, a person is prohibited from assembling a non-sporting semi-automatic rifle or non-sporting shotgun from imported parts. In addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and approval by ATF. An application to make a machine gun will not be approved unless documentation is submitted showing that the firearm is being made for a Federal or State agency.
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/faq2.htm#o8
Combined with the importation act of 1989
Assault Weapons Importation
The Gun Control Act of 1968 outlaws the importation of guns that are not "generally recognized as particularly suitable for, or readily adaptable to sporting purposes." Under this section of the statute ATF has set up guidelines to determine which weapons can be imported. In 1989, the importation of several makes of assault-rifles was suspended.
In order to avoid conflict of the laws You build your STG for sporting purposes ( Target shooting/ marksmanship or Hunting) and make sure you have enough USA domestically made parts to be compliant with the law.
I have even see people that have bought Mak 90's that were made to be compliant enough to be imported after 1989 ( the thumbhole stocks and smaller magazines) But once you exchange the thumbhole stock for the Pre-ban type stocks with pistol grips. you must have enough domestic parts to prevent it from being deemed as a evil import 18 USC ?178.39
There's a copy of a letter from the BATF here you can read check the phrase-a-ture in the 3rd paragraph
http://soupbowl.kalashnikov.guns.ru/Page10.html
Do these 17 parts apply to a pre-ban FN?
All real FN's were imported prior to 1989, an are exempt.