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AR-15 Made from a plastic cutting board, and works well

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:09 am
by lawrnk
Can't see how in the world this is legal though.
http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=4695028

Re: AR-15 Made from a plastic cutting board, and works well

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:18 am
by AEA
Notice he didn't show the switch side?

If he's gonna go to the trouble to make a lower out of anything, I bet he made it full auto as well!

Re: AR-15 Made from a plastic cutting board, and works well

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:34 am
by ELB
Oddly enough, I think building your own gun is one of the least paperwork intensive things you can do (as opposed to getting an SBR, AOW, full-auto, or buying and selling firearms on more than an occasional basis). As I recall, if you build your own gun, with no intention to sell, no license is necessary, nor does it have to be registered in any fashion or even have a serial number.

Lots of people build AKs from kits, a kit being all the parts from a full-auto version minus the receiver. They buy an 80%-finished "receiver" (which does not count as a firearm receiver yet, because it is only 80% finished), do the final 20% on the "receiver," put all the parts together, and voila! A fully functioning (if you did it right) AK. Again, this has to be for you own use -- you can sell it later (and maybe then it has to have a S/N, not sure about that), but as long as you did not build it with the intention to sell, you're supposed to be good.

IANAL and all that -- you wanna go build a gun, research it yourself, but if you google on AK kits and AK builds, you will find several sites devoted to it, as well as instructions in AR-15/AK-47.com, and other places...

Re: AR-15 Made from a plastic cutting board, and works well

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:47 pm
by WarHawk-AVG
Nah...ingenious if you ask me!

You can make your own gun...get a flat for an AK...and bend it and put it all together...you just CANNOT sell it...its illegal to make it full auto though, so making a ar lower using some polycarbonate cutting board materials, some templates (that are free on the internet) and a CNC machine..pow...a fully functional AR lower..but you can MAKE a gun all day long legally in TX (you can just never sell it)

Cavalry arms makes a SUPERB polymer AR-15 lower...some say they are tougher than aluminum recievers! (they are serialized because they registered to SELL them)

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