Stupid M1/M1A/"Assault Weapons" question

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Coronach

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OK. An autoloading rifle is allowed to have no more than two evil features, right? The M1A has one (detachable box magazine). A CMP M1 has one (bayo lug). A flash-hider counts as an evil feature, and IIRC a 'threaded barrel' upon which you could screw a flash-hider does as well. So can you own an M1A in any of the following configurations:

1. Threaded barrel and flash-hider

2. Threaded barrel and muzzle brake (no flash reduction)

3. Flash-hider soldered on the barrel

Also, could you build a rifle on a Garand receiver that has the aforementioned Evil Features (provided it did not have a pistol grip nor a bayo lug)?

Thanks for your help, and please tell me where I'm wrong. :D
Mike

PS my guesses are as follows:

M1- all of the above is fine

M1A- 2 and 3 are fine, #1 is a no-no.
 
I thought it was the threaded barrel on the M1A, (and not the flash hider) and the detachable magazine. If the case is the flashhider, I know a lot of fellas with pinned/welded ones on FALs who aren't going to be happy.
The M1A preban's only difference is the bayo lug, unless you live in CA. Are the CA brakes pinned or welded on? or threaded.
 
SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS and
LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING
DEVICES under Title 18, UNITED STATES CODE, CHAPTER
44 as amended by Public Law 103-322 The Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
(enacted September 13, 1994)

§ 921(a)(30) The term 'semiautomatic assault weapon'
means:

(A) any of the firearms, or copies or duplicates of the
firearms in any caliber, known as -

(i) Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies Avtomat
Kalashnikovs (all models);
(ii) Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI and Galil
(iii) Beretta Ar70 (SC70);
(iv) Colt AR-15; (v) Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC;
(vi) SWD M-10, M-11, M-11/9, and M-12;
(vii) Steyr AUG
(viii) INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC DC-9, and TEC-22; and
(ix) revolving cylinder shotguns, such as (or similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12;

(B) a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at
least 2 of -

(i) a folding or telescopic stock;
(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(iii) a bayonet mount;
(iv) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor;
and
(v) a grenade launcher;
 
Thanks dZ.

Does a threaded barrel with a flash suppressor threaded onto it count as one or two Evil Features?

Mike
 
One Evil Feature

Ok, very cool. Springfield M1As, as shipped to non-PRK states- do they come with threaded barrels and flash-hiders or with flash-hiders soldered in place?

Mike
 
The M1 rifle is not a "semi-automatic assault rifle" since it does not have a detachable magazine. The detachable magazine is not an "evil feature", it is part of the definition of a rifle that may be an "assault rifle" if it has evil features.

Jim
 
Coronach: I far as I know, the M1A's all have threaded barrels and come with either a flash hider (Standard/Match) or muzzle brake (Scout) and they are not permanently attached. The absence of a bayo lug and pistol grip makes this possible.
 
I have no idea what is going on.

I know the PRK SB 23 that banned so many evil rifles stated that the rifles could not have a detachable magazine and a threaded barrel or a flash suppressor. I contacted Springfield Armory for my options and they came up with the PRK legal muzzle break. Everyone is selling the PRK legal M1A's here on the left coast. The thing that still puzzles me, the threaded barrel is still there. I have not been one to ask questions how that works, I just bought the $80 muzzle break and haven't worried about my newly virginized and pure M1A since. I am sorry to all of you others who have evil, evil M1As with the deadly flash suppressor.
 
El Rojo,
A threaded barrel is not mentioned in the California "assault weapons" law, only the flash suppressor.

Rich
 
Oh, OK.

So now I can outfit my CMP Garand with a pistol grip and folding or telescoping stock, too. That will come in handy.

Mike ;)
 
El Rojo, yes, thank you for feeling sorry for those of us with the extremely evil, evil flash suppressors. They are indeed very 'Sixth Sense'
Last night in fact, I kept hearing the strangest sound coming from my flash suppressor~ RedruM, Redrum, REDRUM! I think it's time to fit on a muzzle brake and weld my magazine into place...
 
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