legal to convert SKS to high cap mags

Go over and ask http://www.sksboards.com

No one is sure how the Cali Yugos are legal.

I'm just saying that it is much easier to swap out the parts than to try and to have to defend yourself using the logic 'by my interpretation of the law' if you are ever caught.

Hypothetically, if an importer can import an AK with the ten parts and has been changed enough to be considered a rifle for "sporting purposes",
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The importer changes out the parts to bring it to ten or less foreign parts.
 
jefvnk,
If you read the earlier part of his site, you will see that he does not know for certain what happens if you remove the features and add the magazine.

When I said "hypothetically" I was not referring to and actual case. But the situation may still apply.
 
That may well be the case. I was just sharing that my response from the ATF specifically said that any changes to the rifle rought it out of C&R config, which meant that the imported parts had to be changed. That was the interpretation they sent me, should I go to court, that is the evidence they'l use, is that they told me so.

Best way to find out for sure is to write them a letter specifically listing what you want to do. Include the specific rifle, specific changes. Not something general like 'can I make my SKS legal to put a high-cap on?' but

'I have a Russian Model 45 SKS. I would like to make the following changes: Remove the bayonet and bayonet lug. It is my understanding that doing so would make the rifle suitable for import, and not regulated by (whatever law that is). I would then like to install a 30 rd. detachable magazine, and install a Butler Creek folding stock. Would there be any legal issues with my completing this project? I thank you for your time and response'
 
Best way to find out for sure is to write them a letter specifically listing what you want to do. Include the specific rifle, specific changes. Not something general like 'can I make my SKS legal to put a high-cap on
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Too lazy.

I still have to write letters to the BATFE Firearms Laboratory to ask them about the legality of making a pistol that fires 12 guage ammo without having to get the tax stamp. My letter would go like this-

If I used a new receiver, frame and rifled barrel that was less than 18" did not have a buttstock and was meant to be fired from the hand, would it be an NFA firearm?

So far, I have not seen a reason that this cannot be done if I use parts that were never used in a shotgun before (making it not one of the sawed-off or converted shotguns that are taxed).

I also have been putting off writing a letter to my state police about a C&R FFL issue.........but I am a proscrastinator too.
 
I have not seen a reason that this cannot be done if I use parts that were never used in a shotgun before
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If it was a smooth bore, it would be an AOW. If you have a rifled barrel, it would be a DD because it has a bore more than .5 inches in diameter, unless "the Secretary finds it generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes."
 
If it was a smooth bore, it would be an AOW. If you have a rifled barrel, it would be a DD because it has a bore more than .5 inches in diameter, unless "the Secretary finds it generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes."
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From the way I understand it, 12 gage is already considered sporting ammunition and so the pistol would not have to be declared a "sporting purposes" firearm. This is why I want to send a letter to the BATF lab.
 
Spend 15 minuets to type the letters :rolleyes: You have already spent more time than that thinking about ways to trick the law, why not take the quick and positive route? Are you afraid you'll get a response contrary to what you believe? I wasn't happy when I got my letter, but it has kept me from tempting the law.
 
Are you afraid you'll get a response contrary to what you believe?
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I hate rejection. I am a lazy wimp.

But really, I would love to be the guy who gets the law changed (lawyer wannabe, but'll never happen). I guess what I am doing is to discuss the possible interpretations of the law, thereby preparing myself to offer question in the letter with good arguments (if I ever get off my lazy @ss, get over the fear of rejection, and write the damn letter). Takes a lot longer than fifteen minutes for me to write a letter that does not make me look like someone who writes like an adolescent or a "somewhat" literate adult who is a kook. I think that if I address all of the possibilities with my letter and cover all of the bases, then that is the only moment I will be satisfied with the conclusion (whether it is in favor or against my view). It took me weeks to gather the courage just to write an e-mail, dealing with another issue, to the attorney who writes for "Small Arms Review" (Mark Barnes) because I am so self conscious about my formal writing.

It is easiy to think about puzzles and this is one puzzle that is "sticking in my craw". Although I may never make the 12 gage pistol, or the SKS with a belt feed, or the cartridge that fires 3 bullets on a microsecond delay, or the Gauss gun that shoots plasma balls and does not use a chemical propellant, I would feel proud that I could tell my friends that want to make these that I personally know that it was legal.

15 minutes, it would take me weeks to describe how taking 6 Mosin Nagants and making a homemade Gating gun from them will not violate their C&R staus in my view. :cool:
 
15 minutes, it would take me weeks to describe how taking 6 Mosin Nagants and making a homemade Gating gun from them will not violate their C&R staus in my view.
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If you ever come up with a way to do that, I'll buy plans.
 
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