de-register an AR?

[bross]

Has anyone ever converted an AR upper / lower combination into a dedicated manual action, and successfully had it reclassified as non restricted? Permanently blocking the buffer tube pathway aught to create a non restricted - or now non prohibited - action. Certainly not to be done lightly or for the next two years, but if there was an existing precedent, importers / dealers might have an opportunity.

If there has been no favourable decision to work from, the RCMP lab will take their usual 2-3 years to decide; probably against. Waste of time.

 

[PatchRat]

It would still be an AR, and it would still be prohibited. The next best thing in my opinion would be to buy a specter ballistics manual action receiver when that is released and move your parts over. Or go the Troy PAR / SAR route, but I don't think they are being offered as receiver sets.

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

Has anyone ever converted an AR upper / lower combination into a dedicated manual action, and successfully had it reclassified as non restricted? Permanently blocking the buffer tube pathway aught to create a non restricted - or now non prohibited - action. .....

Until 1 May, uppers were uncontrolled parts. No one worried what it was attached to. So a firearm that used an AR15 upper which did not use a spec' AR15 lower didn't matter. However now, the uppers are named Prohibited. So no doing nothing with them.

The successful Non Restricteds don't use either AR15 lowers so an AR15 upper can't fit. The WK180 for instance is not an AR15 in any way. It resembles an AR180, which was designed as a complete alternative to the AR15 for sale to countries that didn't want or qualify for M16 sales.