February 19, 2007, 08:22 PM | #1 |
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A quick question...
What do you have to do in order to convert normal semi-auto rifles into full autos? What is the cost and how hard is it to do on most guns. I'm thinking about 22's and maybe an AR type rifle. I'm ignant and if yall could enlighten me I'd apreciate it.
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You can't do it now anyway, since the 1986 cut-off; even when you COULD do it, it was a whole lot harder than the anti-gunners made it out to be, and it was a procedure best left to a licenced manufacturer. Also, Washington doesn't allow private ownership of FAs, unless I'm mistaken.
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You cannont legally convert ANY weapon to fire full auto, unless it was registered as a machinegun before 1986. Please do a search of this forum to answer your question better.
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OH ok thanks for the answers. I wasn't so much wanting to know about the legality of it. I'm more wondering if it is something that you can do on your own.
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Speaking just for educational purposes only, it is NOT hard at all to actually convert a semi-auto to full-auto. There are countless books out there that show you how it's done. But for God's sakes DON'T DO IT!!! Unless you are a class II manufacturer, you will land yourself in jail for 10+ years. Definatly not worth it. Learn to bump fire instead.
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Calling Johnny Guest!
This is my official plea for a moderator to delete this thread. You don't ask for help doing anything illegal around here, even if it is only for 'educational purposes'.
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It was more of a curiosity issue. I was just wondering as to how easy it would be in an emergency situation. It is somthing that while not really practical to know right now may come in handy later on.
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(here in the US) it is possible to take a post-1986 non-Title 2 firearm and turn it into fullauto or select fire if the conversion piece was manufactured and registered prior to the prohibition. even a shoestring can be used as a conversion piece, a hacksaw blade etc. going this route "in an emergency..." may be do-able but is the risk really worth it? usually not. that's got to be one hell of an emergency for you to require full-auto.
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If you are interested in NFA weapons Carryabigstick, but don't want to pay the high costs of FA guns you could always get a SBR (Short Barrel Rifle), SBS (Short Barrel Shotgun) or a suppressor. (If legal where you live) I own a TAC-16 suppressor in .223 and I would have to say that in an emergency situation/economic collapse/just plain fun a suppressor would be the most usefull. You don't need hearing protection on most suppressors. If hunting rabbits for food, the suppressed report would not attract attention or bother the neighbors.
Alot of good reading here - Silencer Talk.com. We need to be nice to people like Carryabigstick and try to educate them and not rag on them. I used to be ignorant on NFA stuff and would have asked questions like that before I got into NFA guns.
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You are correct, crosshair. Again, I may have been hasty...my bad..
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So wait a minute. If say I wanted to convert my 10/22 to selectifire, I could as long as the drop in trigger system and bolt parts were made prior to 1986?
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Thanks for the help fellas. Like I said in my first post, I'm ignant. Now when I was saying emergency I wasn't really thinking that through. More of what I was thinking involved, laws changing or something along that line to allow me to build one. I really couldn't afford to shoot one after I built it unless it was a 22. So I'm not and wasn't really planning it, I was just curious to how easy it would be.
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