Viper Driver
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Good Morning,
I am hoping that some of the experts here can direct me to the proper place to help me fix up an old rifle I may acquire.
A buddy of mine has been stashing a bunch of stuff in his garage for a number of years and has allowed me to go through some of it. The gun I am most interested in is a FN/FAL. It's in pieces, and has not been assembled in years, but he has a bunch of parts (2 total kits I think) and what was once a complete rifle.
The gun is a Century Arms L1A1 with an extremely low serial number (<400) and is supposed to be one of the first they produced. He had intended to build a heavy barreled version of the rifle, and bought a few parts kits. He has dropped the project for a number of reasons. I however want to finish it out, and shoot it.
My problem is I am not sure about the legality of finishing it out with a pistol grip, bolt hold open, flash hider, bi-pod, etc. The gun is in a non restrictive state, so I am not worried about any of the laws found in the states on the left and right coasts affecting my possible future project.
Currently he has a heavy barrel installed (Israeli I think) on the receiver and not much else. He told me a gunsmith took care of that and some sort of other prep work, just need to assemble all the parts. There are three lower receivers, one with a thumb hole stock, one with a regular plastic stock, and one that he has the wood parts for, all completely disassembled
. The heavy barrel has a bi-pod and a flash hider somewhere in the gym bag along with all the parts from the other kits. This bag is full of stuff, it's got like 3 bolts (two with sand cuts), tons of springs, pins, sights, slim flash hiders, bayonets, magazines galore, some weird optic, cover plates, an operators manual with assembly instructions, refinished wood parts and some parts for other guns............... So it's a project.
What I want to do is finish it out as a heavy barrel with the wood furniture, as he intended to do years ago.
Long way to get to my question, but is it legal to use all these parts from old kits to make it operational?? My fear is that I must comply with some regulation and have a certain number of American made parts in it, but don't know where to go look for answers other than here.
If I do need to purchase some parts, where is a good (and inexpensive) source so that I can get this gun up and running.
I have more or less committed to taking it off his hands, if it is feasible to fix cheaply and if it is not going to be too much of a project. We are close enough that if I take it on, I will only have to pay for it once finished, so I can tinker with it for a while.
Problem is while I have built a dozen or so AR's, and seem fairly adept at minor stuff like this I have never worked on the FN's.
Thanks for all the help you can provide.
I am hoping that some of the experts here can direct me to the proper place to help me fix up an old rifle I may acquire.
A buddy of mine has been stashing a bunch of stuff in his garage for a number of years and has allowed me to go through some of it. The gun I am most interested in is a FN/FAL. It's in pieces, and has not been assembled in years, but he has a bunch of parts (2 total kits I think) and what was once a complete rifle.
The gun is a Century Arms L1A1 with an extremely low serial number (<400) and is supposed to be one of the first they produced. He had intended to build a heavy barreled version of the rifle, and bought a few parts kits. He has dropped the project for a number of reasons. I however want to finish it out, and shoot it.
My problem is I am not sure about the legality of finishing it out with a pistol grip, bolt hold open, flash hider, bi-pod, etc. The gun is in a non restrictive state, so I am not worried about any of the laws found in the states on the left and right coasts affecting my possible future project.
Currently he has a heavy barrel installed (Israeli I think) on the receiver and not much else. He told me a gunsmith took care of that and some sort of other prep work, just need to assemble all the parts. There are three lower receivers, one with a thumb hole stock, one with a regular plastic stock, and one that he has the wood parts for, all completely disassembled
. The heavy barrel has a bi-pod and a flash hider somewhere in the gym bag along with all the parts from the other kits. This bag is full of stuff, it's got like 3 bolts (two with sand cuts), tons of springs, pins, sights, slim flash hiders, bayonets, magazines galore, some weird optic, cover plates, an operators manual with assembly instructions, refinished wood parts and some parts for other guns............... So it's a project.What I want to do is finish it out as a heavy barrel with the wood furniture, as he intended to do years ago.
Long way to get to my question, but is it legal to use all these parts from old kits to make it operational?? My fear is that I must comply with some regulation and have a certain number of American made parts in it, but don't know where to go look for answers other than here.
If I do need to purchase some parts, where is a good (and inexpensive) source so that I can get this gun up and running.
I have more or less committed to taking it off his hands, if it is feasible to fix cheaply and if it is not going to be too much of a project. We are close enough that if I take it on, I will only have to pay for it once finished, so I can tinker with it for a while.
Problem is while I have built a dozen or so AR's, and seem fairly adept at minor stuff like this I have never worked on the FN's.
Thanks for all the help you can provide.
