Building Full Auto

[Art Eatman]

divemedic, that's a highly optimistic view of "the way things are". There are guys in the Graybar Hotel for doing just that sort of thing. Absent the appropriate licensing, there is no legal way to create any fully-automatic weapon from what was previously a semi-automatic weapon.

 

[freakshow10mm]

Divemedic, you don't need an M16 FCG, that's the part of the RDIAS to have that function.

Art, a registered drop in auto sear is perfectly legal to own and installing it in any AR15 is legal and does not change the status of a semi auto gun. The machine gun is the DIAS and only and always the DIAS. You can put the DIAS in any AR15 rifle you want and the AR15 becomes the accessory to the machine gun. With the DIAS installed the host weapon is treated as a machine gun. There are thousands of RDIAS and Lightning Links out there.

 

[divemedic]

1 I never said use an unregistered DIAS

2 You don't need the entire FCG, but you do need the selector, the hammer, and the bolt carrier.

3 I am in the market for a DIAS right now. There are tons of them out there, and when I find one I want that is for sale, I fully intend to buy one as my latest NFA item.

 

[stchman]

I don't know why the big hub-bub about full auto guns by the federal government.

I have spoke to many a gun expert and for the most part they agree that full auto is a big ammo waster. They have said MOST of the shot are high.

I have also been to many a public range and seen some folks bump fire a semi-auto with a short butt stock. It was very impressive.

Here is a YouTube video of a guy that is really accurate bump firing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIC8SMttjjo

As far as I know bump firing is not illegal.

 

[danprkr]

I don't know why the big hub-bub about full auto guns by the federal government.

Some one here has a quote in their signature that defines tyranny as, "That which is legal for the government but illegal for the people." I'm not sure I have the quote exact, but that is the idea. It is also the "big hub-bub" on whether or not FA should be legal for civilians.

 

[c5_nc]

Our LE agency is equiped with M16/M4s, most of them federal govt surplus we recieved free. We have been replacing several each year with new Colt M4s, which cost us $780 new. Your certainly not going to make money selling to LEOs, civilian Colt semi-auto M4 clones sale for $1200-1600. Manufactor would not want to put a whole in reciever and install full auto FCG they would be $1600-2000 into a weapon that Colt sales to LE for $780.

 

[freakshow10mm]

Yup, even at $995 each I can't compete with Colt. The local agencies would buy from me simply because I'm local but I can't make a living off that.)