Deactivating AR15. Possible?
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Ar180shooter
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Yah, you can get some really realistic looking airsoft AR's with metal receivers.
+1 to all the comments suggesting an airsoft gun. Airsoft isnt my thing as a hobby or a game, but i own a couple simply because they are dead accurate copies of guns I'd love to own but are prohibited. And, they ####, click, and fire real projectiles. For the money you'd spend de-activating an already expensive AR, you could get a whole closet full of airsoft guns.
I strongly urge you to reconsider this idea. Please don't destroy a perfectly good AR so you can have a "toy". The anti's just love that kind of thing. One more "evil assault rifle" "off the streets". We need as many functioning AR-15s in private hands as we can get. Sell it to someone with an RPAL that wants one and use the money to buy a toy.
I strongly urge you to reconsider this idea. Please don't destroy a perfectly good AR so you can have a "toy". The anti's just love that kind of thing. One more "evil assault rifle" "off the streets". We need as many functioning AR-15s in private hands as we can get. Sell it to someone with an RPAL that wants one and use the money to buy a toy.
Thank the guys who were "de-activating" guns then selling them out the back while still being fully functional for change of rules and inspections.
Thats like paying full price for a stud dog and getting it neutered before you pick him up . Buy an Airsoft there are full metal canadian legal guns around for about a third the cost of an ar and when you go out you can shoot it on full auto with a 600 round mag. My son loves them, not as much as his Tikka t3 but close for some reason.
Do you even understand what you wrote?
The lower is the gun. If the lower is an 80% then it has never been a gun. How can an unfinished lower with an upper attached become "deactivated" when it was never a gun inthe first place?
I am seriously beginning to question the modern educational system.
Thats why its quoted - "deactivated" meaning it is serving the purpose of making a real deactivated in this discussion.
I'm asking about the 80% just to educate myself, as I am not too familiar with what an 80% mean and if adding an upper would somehow make it into a different state.
Airsoft is fine for some people, I just don't care for them.
80% is a term used in the US, and even there it has no defined meaning. Whether or not a given partially finished receiver is a chunk of metal or a firearm varies.
If the unfinished lower you use is sufficiently far from completion that it is not going to be considered a firearm, and if you hang enough parts on it that it looks like an AR, you will likely have made a replica, a prohibited device.
If the unfinished lower you use is sufficiently far from completion that it is not going to be considered a firearm, and if you hang enough parts on it that it looks like an AR, you will likely have made a replica, a prohibited device.
Well, my personal opinion would be to shave the hammer, weld the interior of the receiver so the trigger and hammer pins can not be removed, and then maybe do something like remove/trim down the firing pin and weld the firing pin retaining pin, that would seem to give you a rifle that cannot discharge ammunition, and cannot easily be modified to do so. But I'm just an average guy, not a smith or anything.
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