illinoisburt
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Seems sensible to me. Get a rifle you like and be happy! Hope the (retro) build comes together well.
And you are familiar with 922R correct?Well I picked it up today, stripped all the cheap furniture off of it (AR adjustable type stock, quad rail and pistol grip). Going to buy some nice Russian red wood when I find some. Detail stripped it and everything looks great, doesn’t appear to have been shot much. The rivets are all tight, the trunnions show very little wear and the tail of the bolt is shined but now deformation.
It didn’t come with the forearm wood metal end plates as it had a quad rail on it and it seems all the furniture kits do not come with them. Where does one find the end plates that attach to the gas tube for the top forearm and the end plates for the bottom forearm?
Has anyone removed a pinned muzzle treatment before. Would like to get it back to having a compensator on it as well. It’ll be a project of aesthetics and some function. Want to find some deep Combloc red laminate furniture for it, I’m sure I’ll pay a pretty penny but it’ll be my one AK so might as well do it right.
Key words there being to you. To me I would take a 1000 AK semi over an AR semi. No one can say that A foreign made AK isn't likely to run fantastic with cheap milsurp mags, cheap ammo, and no one can say that a good AK isn't accurate enough to be effective.No AK is worth $800 to me. For whatever reason after the craziness ARs came down but AKs have not. They are still cheap to make.
And you are familiar with 922R correct?
Actually you don't have to be under 10 foreign parts.Yes, hence the previous post as to how many parts does the piston and carrier add to. I know that I must be under 10 foreign parts according to the list posted on the first page. Not trying to be rude but it seems you may have missed the first page in this dicussion. Or if I’m missing something with the 922R please enlighten me as I am far from an expert on such things.
Actually you don't have to be under 10 foreign parts.
But I am glad for your sake it was brought up.
I think so.Well I’ve been under the impression that according to 922r as defined under US Code - Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 44 that if one is importing/assembling/modifying a semiautomatic rifle or shotgun from foreign parts it must contain less than 10 of the following foreign made parts:
And to gain compliance one can source US made parts for replacement to get under 10.
- Frame, receiver, receiver casting, forging or stamping
- Barrel
- Barrel extension
- Operating rod
- Gas piston
- Forearm or handguard
- Mounting blocks (trunion)
- Muzzle attachment
- Bolt
- Bolt carrier
- Trigger
- Trigger housing
- Hammer
- Sear
- Disconnector
- Buttstock
- Pistol grip
- Magazine body
- Follower
- Floorplate
After replacing the Tapco crap on the firearm with Russian hand guards and buttstock, and threading the muzzle for a compensator/flash hider, I'll be at 8-9 depending on how one looks at whether or not on an AK if the 'Gas Piston' and 'Operating Rod' are two individual pieces of the compliance list. I've bolded the foreign made items it will include on it's completion.
Am I wrong?
congrats on the AK though.It's "no more than 10" foreign parts, not "under 10" as you said. That as I read the law.
I didn't really care to get down this rabbit hole. But I have even seen rifles for sale that were in no way 922 r compliant.
actually it has been awhile since I read the law and am surprised to see some new stuff in there.I see them all the time, good for them. But I’m not willing to get pinched and lose all my rights by not replacing a few parts. The parts I’ll be replacing will be improvements anyways.
I know what you are saying but this carries the same potential ramifications as running afoul with an NFA item. Just because “they” are not looking at them currently doesn’t mean given a certain situation they deem it useful to throw the book at a person.
I’m actually surprised to find that several members are ok not complying with federal law, but I’ve been surprised quite a bit this week on this forum.
I don’t care for these laws in the least, and feel they should be fought tooth and nail by our lobbying groups and legislators. But the law is the law and until “we” stop compromising “we” will have more and more of these draconian laws to jump through.
As a husband and father of three, I don’t feel it necessary to poke the bear on this matter.
To me, AK's of any origin will always be $300 rifles. Just not my cup of tea, esp. when a good AR can be had for $500 or even less. $850 could get one a decent AR AND optic.