Reactivation?

The new TNW right sideplate is made thicker internally so that you cannot install a regular M1919 or M2HB bolt. The bolts that they do supply have been machined to fit inside those new receivers, and also have the slot machined wider for the sear. The full auto trigger bar won't work with the semi auto sear, and vise versa.

AND the newest decision from SFSS is that 100% of the reciever must be newly manufactured. We purchased quite a number of 1919s and M2s as live guns, stripped the right side plates off and replaced them with TNW side plates, replaced the bolts andn triggers with TNW parts and submitted them for inspection.
Got back a prohib classification, the explanation being we used 5 sides of the receiver from a prohib gun. In order to be NR we would have to make all 6 sides of the receiver.
 
... the idea revolves around whether deactivation is the same as destroyed.

Deactivation and destruction are different. Destruction renders the receiver unusable as such on its own (i.e. 'destroying its ability to be a receiver'), whereas the goal of deactivation is to render a complete firearm incapable of chambering or firing ammunition through such means as denying access to its internal components through pinning, blocking, and welding, through disabling or destroying components such as the bolt face, and also welding in place other parts like the barrel to prevent removal and replacement.

Simply put: a firearm may be deactivated, but there are no guidelines in place for a stripped receiver deactivation. To cite just one of many requirements, in summary the barrel must be blocked/pinned and welded in place in the prescribed manner to prevent removal and replacement. If the barrel is not there, and one can be readily fitted for use, then it is not considered deactivated.

If in theory one were to begin with a deactivated M16, and successfully remove every other part from its lower while maintaining functionality, the end result would be regarded as 'a stripped M16 lower' because the Criminal Code definition of a firearm ...includes any frame or receiver....
If someone took a box of properly destroyed cut up pieces of M16 lowers and somehow managed to cobble together one that is intact, the end result would be regarded as 'a stripped M16 lower' for the same reason.
Whatever the case may be, a person found in possession of such an unregistered 'receiver/frame' would more than likely find themselves in an inordinate amount of hot water upon confirmation that it is a full-auto M16 receiver. Whether or not it was once deactivated, destroyed, and/or grandfathered converted (or full) auto once upon a time may be of some interest in an investigation from a "where did it come from" perspective, but that doesn't change "what it is".

'Once a machine gun, always a machine gun' may be an American phrase, however with the singular exception in Canada that a properly deactivated machine gun can be owned by a non-grandfathered individual and needn't be registered (such dewats aren't permitted stateside - theirs are built on dummy receivers). Doing anything to the 'required modifications' of such a deactivated firearm could adversely effect its status.
 
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