Intent to manufacture unregistered NFA weapon??
Would a person be in violation of the NFA34 if he or she possesses, in assembled form, one of each of the following 2 items at his/her home at the same time:
http://www.gunsmokeenterprises.net/GSE PISTOL.htm
a legally non-NFA AR pistol
and
http://www.gunsmokeenterprises.net/STANDARD ISSUE.htm
a non-NFA AR rifle??
BTW: there’s nothing otherwise special about GSE. I could’ve chosen any number of other example pairs (AK, SP89-clones, etc), but these were the first two I came across where both are sold by the same proprietor. Anyway…
The reason I ask is that I can conceive a dishonest LE or prosecutor tell the judge that the above possessor could ‘so easily’ have switched that pistol upper onto the rifle lower and made an unregistered Short Barreled Rifle, violating the NFA, that the possessor is therefore guilty of ‘intent…’
I know you all get the idea.
Now, I suppose an AK would be harder, since the barrel is not very removeable, and pistols are supposed to have a ‘pistol trunion’ to prevent attaching a stock easily. So I chose the AR.
Anyone know?
C-
Would a person be in violation of the NFA34 if he or she possesses, in assembled form, one of each of the following 2 items at his/her home at the same time:
http://www.gunsmokeenterprises.net/GSE PISTOL.htm
a legally non-NFA AR pistol
and
http://www.gunsmokeenterprises.net/STANDARD ISSUE.htm
a non-NFA AR rifle??
BTW: there’s nothing otherwise special about GSE. I could’ve chosen any number of other example pairs (AK, SP89-clones, etc), but these were the first two I came across where both are sold by the same proprietor. Anyway…
The reason I ask is that I can conceive a dishonest LE or prosecutor tell the judge that the above possessor could ‘so easily’ have switched that pistol upper onto the rifle lower and made an unregistered Short Barreled Rifle, violating the NFA, that the possessor is therefore guilty of ‘intent…’
I know you all get the idea.
Now, I suppose an AK would be harder, since the barrel is not very removeable, and pistols are supposed to have a ‘pistol trunion’ to prevent attaching a stock easily. So I chose the AR.
Anyone know?
C-