Let's not be too harsh on him. After all a broken clock still tells the right time twice a day.
What makes an M1 Prohib?
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Let's not be too harsh on him. After all a broken clock still tells the right time twice a day.
I'm taking all this info in folks. This is considered a converted full auto but it doesn''t have any of the parts to make it full auto. I'm not sure if it ever was but it does have the cutout in the stock for the lever. I'm not sure if they all had it or not. I will most likely destroy the receiver and keep the rest. I was hoping that I would get lucky as they had it classed as restricted for my father but no such luck.
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Unfortunately the M2 is halfway between an ordinary restricted and a converted auto or a full auto. The legal default is to go to the worse condition. The feds gave owners a chance with the converteds, but then took the option away. The full-auto parts were designed to be interchangeable. If it was registered as a restricted, then it is just like a handgun. The choices depend on how it was registered.
As the old Dave Tomlinson of the NFA-of-old would say, don't try to make sense of it.
As the old Dave Tomlinson of the NFA-of-old would say, don't try to make sense of it.
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I wasn't certain hence the "(check that)". Apparently what applies to prohib kitten killer pocket pistols, does not apply to probib rifles...makes a tonne of sense. As far as "bad information", how is prompting the OP to check his rights prior to blindly turning in a firearm for destruction bad?
Seems like some confusion here, so I'll wade in - the difference between a late M1 and an M2 is essentially the sear trip, plunger and spring, the actuator lever, selector switch and 9 spring. All late model M1's came with the same trigger housing and internals and bolt and operating slide as the M2. Early M1 trigger groups had a different sear, hammer and the housing did not have the groove to retain the 9 spring. So functionally all M2 parts that aren't involved in FA fire will work on any M1 receiver.
This guy shows the "difference" - that said, any receiver marked M2 is a 12.2 or 12.3 prohibited firearm, any receiver marked M1 is either restricted, or non, depending on barrel length, standard GI barrels are 18 inches, Criterion makes a replacement barrel that's 18.6 inches long (non-restricted)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_pQyC22Pg
This guy shows the "difference" - that said, any receiver marked M2 is a 12.2 or 12.3 prohibited firearm, any receiver marked M1 is either restricted, or non, depending on barrel length, standard GI barrels are 18 inches, Criterion makes a replacement barrel that's 18.6 inches long (non-restricted)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_pQyC22Pg
What if, the gun had all the parts when it was registered and they were taken out for safe keeping and lost. Remember, we had to reregister everything. The gun was
registered under the old system and the new system changed fa guns from restricted to prohibited. Taking the parts out of a registered fa m1/m2 carbine doesn't change
it from prohibited to restricted. That is where the converted automatic registration came from and they are prohibited.
The RCMPolice cannot change it from prohibited to restricted. The cost to change receivers etc just isn't worth it.
registered under the old system and the new system changed fa guns from restricted to prohibited. Taking the parts out of a registered fa m1/m2 carbine doesn't change
it from prohibited to restricted. That is where the converted automatic registration came from and they are prohibited.
The RCMPolice cannot change it from prohibited to restricted. The cost to change receivers etc just isn't worth it.
