September 21, 2002, 02:27 PM | #1 |
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Folding Stocks
Hello, I was wondering if I could put a Butler Creek folding stock on my 10/22? The serial number is 5 digits long, it was made in 1964. Does the 94 Crime Bill affect it or what? Thank you.
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September 21, 2002, 05:01 PM | #2 |
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Even though your rifle is pre-ban, you cannot now add a folding stock to it because ATF considers this creating a NEW assault rifle.
Per ATF's FAQ page: (O10) If a person is in possession of a frame or receiver for a semiautomatic assault weapon on the date of enactment, may the person acquire the rest of the parts No. It is unlawful to make such weapon after the law's effective date. [18 U. S. C. 922( v)( 1)] http://www.atf.treas.gov/firearms/faq/faq2.htm#o1 That said, who would know the date you placed the folding stock on your rifle other than you?
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September 21, 2002, 06:13 PM | #3 |
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Hkmp5sd is correct, your rifle wasn't an "assault weapon" when the ban went into effect, so it's illegal to turn it into one after the ban. Stupid law, but that's how it reads...
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September 21, 2002, 08:06 PM | #4 |
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Yeah, Hkmp5sd
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September 21, 2002, 10:27 PM | #5 |
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Use your head
The rifle is preban. The stock has to be preban if it is a folder. Pay cash for the stock if you don't already have it. Stocks don't have serial numbers anyway. Put it all together, |
September 21, 2002, 11:40 PM | #6 |
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Thank you everybody. Even though I really want to put a folding stock on it, I won't because I want to stay within the confines of the law. It blows, but it's life. Has anybody used the Choate Dragunov stock? It is my second alternative. I love the look.
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September 21, 2002, 11:41 PM | #7 |
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It's no problem to simply replace the mangled folding stock that on there now with a new one.
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September 22, 2002, 12:28 AM | #8 |
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Ask Sterling Fligge of Great Guns in Sacramento about folding stocks and 10/22's!
He lost his FFL
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September 22, 2002, 01:08 AM | #9 |
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Gewehr98,
Just out of curiosity, do you happen to know what agency caught him?
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September 22, 2002, 01:42 AM | #10 |
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Yup. BATF & California DOJ.
Here's one of the news stories printed in the Sacramento Bee:
Newswatch: Gun store admits violating law (Published Feb. 12, 2000) Sacramento An Auburn Boulevard gun store pleaded guilty Friday in Sacramento federal court to possession of illegal semiautomatic assault weapons. The plea was entered on behalf of Great Guns by one of its attorneys, Richard Pachter. Sentencing was set for April 28. The company faces a maximum fine of $500,000; the company's federal firearms licence will become invalid 60 days after sentencing. Charges against the store's owner, Sterling G. Fligge, previously were dismissed. Pachter admitted that the store displayed two .22-caliber Ruger semiautomatic rifles that had been converted to assault weapons with detachable magazines, pistol grips Rifles in that configuration are more easily concealed --Denny Walsh I was never a big fan of Sterling, he'd done quite a bit of shady things to include ratting out (falsely, as it turned out) Phoxx Shooter's Supply on Watt Avenue to the DOJ for selling guns off the books. The big joke around town was that Sterling had such high prices on his guns to support his nose candy habit. But he was indeed shrewd. Sterling tried to get sneaky, he had the FFL under the company's name instead of himself. Then, when the fine was levied against the company, he claimed insolvency. The judge would have none of it: Huge fine for owner of capital gun store: $500,000 for selling illegal assault arms By Denny Walsh Bee Staff Writer (Published May 13, 2000) A federal judge Friday fined the corporate owner of Sacramento's largest gun store $500,000 for marketing illegal assault weapons. It is the biggest criminal fine ever levied against a U.S. gun retailer. Attorneys for Great Guns, which had pleaded guilty to the charges, say the company can't pay the fine because it is insolvent. U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. was obviously unhappy with Great Guns' attempt to sidestep a fine by what he described as "gutting its assets" shortly before its Feb. 11 guilty plea. "Great Guns' effort to avoid any fine in this case is akin to the parent murderer who seeks the mercy of the court because he is an orphan," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in a sentencing brief. Burrell said he was imposing the maximum penalty not just to deprive Great Guns of profit from the crime but "to penalize it for its evident action of transforming its corporate existence through the fiction of placing a significant amount of its assets in possession of its sole stockholder." Richard Pachter, an attorney for the Auburn Boulevard store, told Burrell he was troubled by the judge's finding that the company deliberately engaged in conduct designed to frustrate the government's mission "I think you're wrong," Burrell shot back heatedly. "My ruling on that point is right Because of its felony conviction, Great Guns will automatically lose its federal license to sell firearms 30 days after the sentencing. This was the first prosecution under Congress' 1994 assault weapons ban in the 34- county Eastern District of California, stretching from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. Two semiautomatic .22-caliber Ruger rifles with detachable magazines, pistol grips Great Guns' sole owner, Sterling Fligge II of Granite Bay, was originally charged along with the company in the weapons counts. He was also charged with lying to an ATF agent when he denied the store had sold any semiautomatic rifles equipped like those displayed. Fligge, 51, hired former U.S. Attorney George O'Connell, whose firm has as its other name partner immediate past U.S. Attorney Charles Stevens. As tough as he is smart, O'Connell brought his hard-nosed tactics to the matter. Pachter, a former assistant U.S. attorney Pachter later returned with O'Connell, Prosecutors subsequently said in an application to Burrell: "The government is moving for the dismissal of defendant Fligge after due consideration, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, But by Friday's sentencing, relations had cooled between the U.S. Attorney's Office Burrell, who was an assistant U.S. attorney under O'Connell, had denied his old boss's motion to suppress the evidence on Oct. 22. The judge found Fligge's testimony at a hearing on the motion "was not veracious; some of his testimony even conflicted with his own declaration" in support of the motion. Three days after that ruling, Guns "Apparently, (Fligge) does not even intend to change the sign," Wagner said in his sentencing brief. Under the circumstances of this case, the government had no legal ability to freeze the corporation's assets before the February guilty plea. At the end of last year, nearly $1 million was drained out of Great Guns Total current assets shrank from more than $873,000 as of Sept. 30 to less than $76,000 on Dec. 31. Although acknowledging in his sentencing memorandum that this could reflect a depletion from sales, Wagner said, "A more logical explanation for the quantity of missing inventory is that some of it has been transferred to another person or entity in contemplation of passing it on to Guns In a later pleading, Wagner said he had "just become aware" that Fligge had, indeed, transferred more than 100 firearms from Great Guns to himself. While all this was going on, "Fligge almost certainly knew that the company would be pleading guilty to a felony Great Guns insisted it was a normal winding down of operations. Wagner, however, termed it a "sham ... in order to present this court with a fait accompli -- an indigent defendant." In a memorandum filed this week, Wagner said, "The defendant simply argues that Fligge had a right to loot the company, In the event that Great Guns fails to pay the fine, Burrell noted that civil collection remedies are available to the government. Wagner suggested the possibility that the government would impose the fine against Guns The new corporation's application for a federal firearms license was rejected by ATF locally, He said there was an administrative hearing in Sacramento last week before an ATF inspector from Southern California, who has not yet made a decision. |
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