Source?
I didn't think any prohibs had restrictions on non-serialized parts? Other than the obvious (supressors, full auto components, etc..)
Definitely enough guys out there who have done conversions on Valmets with AK/Galil parts.. Or the G36 conversions...
What am I missing?!
Even with the ban, I thought we'd still be free to buy/trade/sell any parts other than the lower? The same way I can buy AK handguards or a Galil stock?
"The Regulations also prescribe the upper receivers
of M16, AR-10, AR-15 and M4 pattern firearms to be prohibited
devices in order to ensure that these firearms cannot
easily be used with illicitly manufactured or acquired
lower receivers. The M16, AR-10, AR-15 and M4 firearms
are modular firearms consisting of the lower receiver
assembly, which is the component bearing the serial number
and subject to registration and that is now prohibited;
and the upper receiver assembly, which is the pressure bearing
component and has not previously been regulated.
An owner could possess two or more upper receiver
assemblies, which can be mounted and dismounted on a
lower receiver assembly according to the needs of the
occasion. If upper receivers were not also prohibited,
there would be an important public safety risk that the
upper receiver assemblies would be mated with an illegal
lower receiver (i.e. smuggled, made from a receiver blank,
or manufactured by 3D printing to supply the illegal market)
thus creating unmarked untraceable M16, AR-10,
AR-15 or M4 firearms, commonly known as “ghost guns.”
Prohibiting the upper receiver of these rifles will reduce
the quantities in circulation and render it much more difficult
to illicitly fabricate working firearms."
Page 64-65.