AR 15's during the assault weapon ban

[44minimum]

During the ban, if you had a pre ban AR 15, could you still buy barrels with a flash suppressor and bayonet lug and put on it or were they simply unavailable?

[imashooter2]

You could buy all you wanted. New or used both widely available.

[supv26]

I believe that during the ban you could not have put those type items on them. Now that the ban has expired you can do it.

[AZ-Stew]

If you could find the parts that were made pre-ban, you could do what you wanted. You could NOT buy a complete, new rifle with all the "evil" features post-ban, until the ban expired in 2004. There were lots of pre-ban parts available, especially magazines, during the ban. One exception was Ruger 10-22 high-caps, which ran out within a year or so of the beginning of the ban.

If you don't have an AR yet and think you will want one, be sure to buy your lower receiver as soon as possible. It's the part with the serial number and will be the truly "banned" part. All the other parts are "replacement" items and are not, in themselves, legally considered "firearms". The lower IS a firearm. If you want one, get it now. Saw lots of them at last weekend's show here in Phoenix. No uppers, though. Lots of other various AR parts.

Regards,

Stew

[cabezaverde]

Also depends on what state you are in. NY and NJ (I think NJ) are 2 states that never let the ban expire.

[imashooter2]

It was all the receiver. If you had a preban receiver you could hang whatever you wanted on it and it didn't matter when any of it (except for the receiver) was made.

[mike in co]

If you could find the parts that were made pre-ban, you could do what you wanted. You could NOT buy a complete, new rifle with all the "evil" features post-ban, until the ban expired in 2004. There were lots of pre-ban parts available, especially magazines, during the ban. One exception was Ruger 10-22 high-caps, which ran out within a year or so of the beginning of the ban.

If you don't have an AR yet and think you will want one, be sure to buy your lower receiver as soon as possible. It's the part with the serial number and will be the truly "banned" part. All the other parts are "replacement" items and are not, in themselves, legally considered "firearms". The lower IS a firearm. If you want one, get it now. Saw lots of them at last weekend's show here in Phoenix. No uppers, though. Lots of other various AR parts.

Regards,

Stew

actually the rcvr must be assembled as a complete rifle at some point before the ban. else it aint a 'RIFLE" AND CANNOT BE ASSEMBLED AFTER A BAN GOES IN PLACE.
letters were sometimes to prove a recvr was assembled prior to the old ban.
the lower is the registered part, but not a rifle till assembled.

[Triggerhappy]

I second the fact that the lower has to have been assembled into a complete rifle before the ban.

[Lloyd Smale]

you could do about anything your wallet would allow which wasnt much!

[arcticbreeze]

Technically you had to have an assembled rifle prior to the ban to be considered preban but they really did not have a way to tell. But interestingly the new transfer forms have a place to indicate if it is a frame or completed gun. Makes you wonder what is around the corner.

Here is a link to the changes

http://www.atf.gov/press/2008press/100308atf-important-ffl-notice-rev.pdf