AlexanderA
Member
Under federal law, the "gun" is the serial-numbered part -- in the case of the AR-15, the lower receiver. Everything else is just an unrestricted part.
When NY, California, NJ, etc., restricted the AR-15, did they apply the restrictions to complete guns, to lower receivers, or to any and all parts such as detached barrelled upper receivers?
The reason I ask is that we have just had a close call here in Virginia, with the governor proposing an AWB with no grandfathering. The proposed law would have given owners a few months to turn in their guns, destroy them, or move them out of state. And although the proposal was defeated this time, we can be sure that it will be back after the next election.
The text of the bill was silent as to whether it applied to detached parts or disassembled weapons. It would seem that the obvious solution would be to strip the guns down and store only the bare lower receivers across the state line in a neighboring state. Am I missing something?
(Another quirk in this bill was that it would have outlawed semiautomatic rifles, but left fully-automatic machine guns untouched. Of course, it would be hard to use the fully-automatic machine guns since you would be limited to 10-round magazines or belts.)
When NY, California, NJ, etc., restricted the AR-15, did they apply the restrictions to complete guns, to lower receivers, or to any and all parts such as detached barrelled upper receivers?
The reason I ask is that we have just had a close call here in Virginia, with the governor proposing an AWB with no grandfathering. The proposed law would have given owners a few months to turn in their guns, destroy them, or move them out of state. And although the proposal was defeated this time, we can be sure that it will be back after the next election.
The text of the bill was silent as to whether it applied to detached parts or disassembled weapons. It would seem that the obvious solution would be to strip the guns down and store only the bare lower receivers across the state line in a neighboring state. Am I missing something?
(Another quirk in this bill was that it would have outlawed semiautomatic rifles, but left fully-automatic machine guns untouched. Of course, it would be hard to use the fully-automatic machine guns since you would be limited to 10-round magazines or belts.)