NY State Compliant AR Platform

If it looks like a regular AR then it will have a device that replaces the magazine release button making it a top load only requiring popping the rear take down pin out and swinging it open to reload.
The other option is featureless ie. no pistol grip or muzzle break,these will have either a little nub(spur) of a grip or a thordsen FRS rifle stock.
Yes NewYork sucks!!!!

LWRC introduced a prototype about a year ago with a fixed magazine that I saw on all outdoor. You pull down the magazine body to reload, which compresses the spring and reveals a reloading port.

Here's another option:


http://www.aresdefense.com/?page_id=729

Requires a proprietary bolt carrier, but otherwise takes standard AR uppers and STANAG magazines.

That's actually pretty nice looking! I believe there is probably a good market for an/at a tion semiautos that are low profile like this.

In my mind, if I were forced to live under the constraints of an AR-15 unfriendly state, I would choose to go the route to keep as much AR-15 standard parts as possible. I'd add the bullet button. I'd go with one of those funny stocks as shown above. I personally would avoid a different BCG.

I know for awhile there, out in California specified that if you had the bullet button ("a took required to remove the magazine") you could more or less keep the thing pretty close to standard.

CA problems can easily be avoided (likely NY as well) by using a mini-14. The newer ones seem to shoot 2 MOA. While many scoff at this level of accuracy, for it's intended purpose, it's fine. Mine has held up well in the numerous classes I've taken with it.

Two other solutions are to run a lever action in 44 magnum or a pump action shotgun. The 44 mag lever guns hold 10 or so rounds which often is all you can have in those states for a semi auto rifle anyway.

Personally, I'd be comfortable with any of the three non-AR choices. It's annoying and really makes no sense to have these laws but at least there are viable effective self defense tools available.

I went with a Marlin 1894 in .44 mag. As the (un)SAFE Act was being discussed, I could have spent $1,500 - 2,000 for an AR that I would have to register and could never pass down to my children or go with something else. I already had a Ruger SBH in .44, so the Marlin made sense. I put a Burris FF3 on it and it's a fantastic deer hunting rifle out to 125 yards. I figure it's good for anything I would likely need an AR for.

Thank the good Lord I still live in the USA, I wouldn't even want some type of AR-15 that is all butchered up in the name of political correctness.

During AWB times, there was a deliberate effort to exempt the Rugers. That's a long story and we shouldn't divert.

But if I had to live in NY - I'd buy one - if they ran well.

I noted on the tube, that many rural folks mentioned they had rifles, shotguns and pistol on the ready for the prison escapees.