Full auto AR-15 Lower?

BrassSlinger · October 31, 2008, 11:56 PM

Legally could I buy this

http://www.lewismachine.net/product....497f5ca88e4025

have it shipped to a class three gun dealer, pay the $200 tax stamp and slap my upper onto it?

ISC · November 1, 2008, 12:18 AM

no.
http://www.lewismachine.net/legal.ph...2f026bb710#nfa

Frankyoz · November 1, 2008, 12:34 AM

The tax stamp isnt just a buy and go ordeal. involves a lengthy background check or should I say investigation. If memory servers me correct you pay for that investigation as well.

TheManHimself · November 1, 2008, 06:36 AM

Citizens can only legally own select fire weapons registered before 1986.

MeekAndMild · November 1, 2008, 10:42 AM

BrassSlinger, let me give you an important link:

http://www.atf.gov/index.htm

They have detailed information about all the Federal rules which apply to firearms. And if you ever do purchase an NFA weapon (for about 20 x the price quoted here) they can be very helpful in assisting you in your legal compliance efforts.

The page you posted looks like a law enforcement / military catalog and not a civilian catalog. As George Orwell observed a half century ago, "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".

Chipperman · November 1, 2008, 12:00 PM

Quote:

If memory servers me correct you pay for that investigation as well.

No, you just pay the $200 for the stamp.

Art Eatman · November 1, 2008, 12:58 PM

Fingerprints, mugshots, approval by local chief of PD or sheriff, plus background investigation by BATFE. And only for receivers made prior to the cutoff date in 1986. September? Disremember.

Chipperman · November 1, 2008, 03:18 PM

It was May of 1986.

October 31, 2008, 11:56 PM	#1
BrassSlinger Member Join Date: April 22, 2008 Posts: 58	Full auto AR-15 Lower? Legally could I buy this http://www.lewismachine.net/product....497f5ca88e4025 have it shipped to a class three gun dealer, pay the $200 tax stamp and slap my upper onto it?

November 1, 2008, 12:34 AM	#3
Frankyoz Member Join Date: October 30, 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 77	The tax stamp isnt just a buy and go ordeal. involves a lengthy background check or should I say investigation. If memory servers me correct you pay for that investigation as well. __________________ Active duty USMC 97-06 Afghanistan/Iraq and Iraq again good times!

November 1, 2008, 10:42 AM	#5
MeekAndMild Senior Member Join Date: August 2, 2001 Posts: 4,988	BrassSlinger, let me give you an important link: http://www.atf.gov/index.htm They have detailed information about all the Federal rules which apply to firearms. And if you ever do purchase an NFA weapon (for about 20 x the price quoted here) they can be very helpful in assisting you in your legal compliance efforts. The page you posted looks like a law enforcement / military catalog and not a civilian catalog. As George Orwell observed a half century ago, "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others". __________________ In a few years when the dust finally clears and people start counting their change there is a pretty good chance that President Obama may become known as The Great Absquatulator. You heard it first here on TFL.

November 1, 2008, 12:18 AM	#2
ISC Junior member Join Date: August 5, 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 1,982	no. http://www.lewismachine.net/legal.ph...2f026bb710#nfa

November 1, 2008, 06:36 AM	#4
TheManHimself Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 2008 Posts: 730	Citizens can only legally own select fire weapons registered before 1986.

November 1, 2008, 12:58 PM	#7
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	Fingerprints, mugshots, approval by local chief of PD or sheriff, plus background investigation by BATFE. And only for receivers made prior to the cutoff date in 1986. September? Disremember.

November 1, 2008, 03:18 PM	#8
Chipperman Senior Member Join Date: January 31, 2000 Location: Live Free or Die, Baby! Posts: 1,550	It was May of 1986.