Still have my minty Portuguese variant. I will, be buried with that rifle, I love it so much! The tragedy is that it is a 57 year-old, MOA-and-a-half battle rifle that hasn'the fired a shot in 11 years because transporting it to a range and home again is deemed too high of a risk to public safety. What an absolute load of pointless, obstructionist, petty and transparent foolishness from our unelected "bureaucratic masters".....
Still have my minty Portuguese variant. I will, be buried with that rifle, I love it so much! The tragedy is that it is a 57 year-old, MOA-and-a-half battle rifle that hasn'the fired a shot in 11 years because transporting it to a range and home again is deemed too high of a risk to public safety. What an absolute load of pointless, obstructionist, petty and transparent foolishness from our unelected "bureaucratic masters".....
Quite a few Transitional AR10s left the AI factory with wooden handguards (see mine below). This was because the whole plastic composite molding issue was not yet sorted. Look closely at the rifle below and notice it does not have a Portuguese style charging handle or a Porto front sight base.Wood furniture is not original, all AR-10's left NWM with fibreglass stocks.
Quite a few Transitional AR10s left the AI factory with wooden handguards (see mine below).
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I bought an Ar-10, the first batch that had come into Canada in the 80's, they were Dutch manufactured, they were convert full auto. They shot nice, my finish was not great so the guy who did all my competition IPSIC guns was in Montana, so I bought it down to the US, declared it at the border, border guys love it and I gave it to my gunsmith to have it refinished. My gunsmith sent it to a place in Florida, when they received it they called the ATF. The ATF seized it because in the US, once a machine gun always a machine gun. The ATF agent called me, told me I was not in trouble because they checked and I had declared it, stated border guards should not have let it in, and they destroyed the rifle. Back in the 80's, I hunted with that rifle and took down a couple deer, miss those days when we could hunt with an AR
Actually, I can give you the end to this story. The rifle was destroyed and some of the debris was sent to the gunsmith Curtis264 used (in Northern MT). I indirectly acquired the debris from that gunsmith.
So the rifle was really destroyed.