artherd
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artherd, I wasn't addressing the legality of the belt, but you cannot buy or assemble a gun based on an AR-15 that accepts "hi-caps" after 2001. Maybe you can find someone to sell you a shrike (good luck with the way that they like to intimidate dealers), but as soon as you put it on a lower, even the dpms or fab-10, it's illegal.
I belive you're simply mistaken.
What statute would exactly prevent me from having a DMPS lower, pistol grip removed, with a Shrike upper?
The "AR-15 series" has been banned for a while, but that 'series' is a HARD AND DEFINED list, it is NOT a neblous 'anything that looks like an AR'. (however, the CA AG wants you to think anything that looks like an AR is explicetly banned, he uses careful language to lead us to belive that is the case.
Infact, the "AR and AK Series" was spelled out HARD in 12276.(e)
The assembled firearm would then be a:
"Semi-automatic, detachable-magazine, centerfire rifle"
However, it would have no additional 'assault' features. (after I remove the pistol grip.)
It does not meet Catagory 1 criteria (not one of the banned by name rifles)
It does not meet Catagory 2 criteria (not one of the list of banned rifles in the defined 'AR and AK series'
It does not meet Catagory 3 criteria because it does not have any additional 'assault features'.
Therefore, it ain't an Assault Weapon, and rather just a regular rifle.
Yes, getting my hands on a Shrike will be more difficult than going to Wal-Mart, however if you want to talk me out of something because you think it's hard, that's fine.
They have to first produce the Shrike, then I need to find a distributor with the nuggins to ship into the PRK, and THEN I have to find a FFL that is willing to do a perfectly legal firearms transaction. (one that might however seem a little high-risk to the rightfully paranoid remaining FFLs.)