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Flash suppressors? Advice needed if ban expires
- Thread starter tackdrivr
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Yep, sorry.
Here's the deal. If I were to attach a pre ban upper (AR15) (with a flash suppressor) to a post ban Cal. registered lower I would be in violation of the federal law. There is nothing in the Cal. ban (I think) that would prevent me from doing that.
Thus, if the federal ban were to expire flash suppressors could be installed on existing registered assault rifles in Ca.
Edited to add:
I received a flyer from Armalite yesterday stating that if the ban expires new rifles would be shipped with a flash suppressor.
It was the federal ban that set the manufacturing standards. The Cal. ban only stipulated what had to be registered. In the case of a M1A if it had a flash suppressor it had to be registered. If it had a muzzle brake it didn't.
The Cal ban set forth a registration criteria. If the rifle had one of the following:
A pistol grip.
A flash suppressor.
A detachable magazine. blah blah.
Yep, sorry.
Here's the deal. If I were to attach a pre ban upper (AR15) (with a flash suppressor) to a post ban Cal. registered lower I would be in violation of the federal law. There is nothing in the Cal. ban (I think) that would prevent me from doing that.
Thus, if the federal ban were to expire flash suppressors could be installed on existing registered assault rifles in Ca.
Edited to add:
I received a flyer from Armalite yesterday stating that if the ban expires new rifles would be shipped with a flash suppressor.
It was the federal ban that set the manufacturing standards. The Cal. ban only stipulated what had to be registered. In the case of a M1A if it had a flash suppressor it had to be registered. If it had a muzzle brake it didn't.
The Cal ban set forth a registration criteria. If the rifle had one of the following:
A pistol grip.
A flash suppressor.
A detachable magazine. blah blah.
As far as the feds are concerned, it is legal. There are no longer any pre-ban/post-ban categories, merely semi-automatic firearms.
It was the 94 Federal law that removed the flash supprssors, bayonet lugs. folding stocks etc. from the semiauto rifles. Hence the high prices for pre ban guns.
So, if the law sunsets we could install flash suppressors on our existing rifles along with folding, telescoping, stocks et.al.