Change SKS to Bolt Action via Removing/Welding Gas Systeem ?

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HI, Is it a Valid 'Legal" process to change an SKS to "Only Bolt Action" by 'Welding the piston' closed ? Just looking to avoid buying a 'new' bolt action - running short of space in gun cab. At some point the 'semi-auto SKS' is going to become RPAL or Prohib unless a conversion is valid.
I'd hate to 'dewat' mine totally if conv is good enuf.
 
Buck1950 said:
HI, Is it a Valid 'Legal" process to change an SKS to "Only Bolt Action" by 'Welding the piston' closed ? Just looking to avoid buying a 'new' bolt action - running short of space in gun cab. At some point the 'semi-auto SKS' is going to become RPAL or Prohib unless a conversion is valid.
I'd hate to 'dewat' mine totally if conv is good enuf.
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Change the government, that is the answer, no butchering your rifle will then be required.
 
Buck1950 said:
HI, Is it a Valid 'Legal" process to change an SKS to "Only Bolt Action" by 'Welding the piston' closed ? Just looking to avoid buying a 'new' bolt action - running short of space in gun cab. At some point the 'semi-auto SKS' is going to become RPAL or Prohib unless a conversion is valid.
I'd hate to 'dewat' mine totally if conv is good enuf.
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Don't be silly. When they ban it, it'll be by name. Won't matter if you butchered your action or not. Keep it as is and enjoy it.
 
Buck1950 said:
HI, Is it a Valid 'Legal" process to change an SKS to "Only Bolt Action" by 'Welding the piston' closed ? Just looking to avoid buying a 'new' bolt action - running short of space in gun cab. At some point the 'semi-auto SKS' is going to become RPAL or Prohib unless a conversion is valid.
I'd hate to 'dewat' mine totally if conv is good enuf.
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Nobody knows how they might define what semi-automatic means if the government bans semi-automatic firearms.

In the Regulations it does define what semi-automatic means

1 In these Regulations, “semi-automatic”, in respect of a firearm, means a firearm that is equipped with a mechanism that, following the discharge of a cartridge, automatically operates to complete any part of the reloading cycle necessary to prepare for the discharge of the next cartridge.
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So you could make a bolt action SKS, if it doesn't move the bolt to extract a cartridge.

But it also might trip over Hasselwander where if it's "easily convertible in a relatively short period time" it could still be semi-auto. As an instructive example Converted auto firearms were firearms determined to not be automatic and were not regulated under C-51 in 1977. But they were reprohibited during C-17, C-68 when the government added a converted auto category so the government can easily define semi-automatic as firearms that were originally semi-automatic regardless if it was converted or not.

It's a pointless thought exercise at this point, and don't lose any sleep over it until they actually announce something. If you want to know if welding the gas system would work or not ask UK gun owners as they have decent experience converting semi-autos to meet the UK definition of manual action firearms.
 
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