Gordon Fink
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Kaylee said:So the short answer is … no. You can’t do it.
Correction: you “legally” may not do it.
~G. Fink
Kaylee said:So the short answer is … no. You can’t do it.
There are a lot of tricky areas in this. First a registered DIAS IS a machinegun; its installation DOES NOT "convert" the host rifle into a machinegun...
Or do they? You have an AR15 lower receiver (a semi-auto rifle), and a RDIAS (machine gun) stuck together with a short barreled upper receiver. Two guns, one barrel. Which gun is the barrel attached to?...so all the rifle rules on barrel length still apply.
Jim Keenan said:There is another tricky area. If, to install a registered DIAS, you alter the rifle, you can still be guilty of attempting to manufacture a machinegun, since the rifle is not a machinegun.
In short, it is a jungle out there, and the DIAS question is really fraught with potential trouble. IMHO, if you want to own a machinegun, keep your DIAS money and put it toward buying a real machinegun.
VorpalSpork said:Following the logic in U.S v Thompson/Center Arms Co. I would expect it to be considered legal. Can you point me to a specific BATFE ruling or court case on this subject?
In the instant case, the AR-15 rifle with the M-16 internal
components and the auto-sear is a single NFA weapon for two
reasons. First, it contains the auto-sear which falls within the
"combination of parts" definition of machinegun, and secondly, the
addition of the auto-sear and M-16 parts allows the weapon to shoot
automatically more than one shot without manual reloading by a
single function of the trigger. Nevertheless, it constitutes only
one machinegun for tax and registration purposes.