Transfer of Vietnam era Select Fire rifle

**243winxb** · August 2nd, 2015, 07:31 AM

I would want to look inside to see if all the parts are there. Could it have been changed to semi-auto? Photo, M16A1 with correct parts.

Would it be a legal semi auto if the auto sear is missing??

**mongo** · August 2nd, 2015, 09:17 AM

Once a machine gun , always a machine gun, parts, no parts. The receiver is the registered part. The rest of the gun is just parts.....

**Delkal** · August 2nd, 2015, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Gunplummer

If that was the case every M1 Carbine would be considered an M2. Just like the carbine, the M-14 was a bolt on affair for select fire.

Not necessarily..... Remember the rule is once a machine gun always a machine gun. So any carbine receiver marked M2 (which was originally built as a fully auto) is banned. Even if all of the auto parts are removed. Similarly a semi auto M1 that was converted at any time to full auto is considered a machine gun from that time forward. Again even if you put the original parts back on its still banned. How the feds know or prove what happened to a semi auto receiver in the last 70 years during arsenal rebuilds is a mystery.

A standard semi auto M1 was never a machinegun and is legal to own. It can even have some M2 parts (but NOT all). But be careful, if you have ALL of the conversion parts AND a M1 carbine you can be charged with having a machinegun. It doesn't have to be assembled. It is interesting that none of the conversion parts are regulated and you can even have all of them IF you don't have a M1 carbine.

**Qtrborecrazy** · August 13th, 2015, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Very suspicious to me. I spent 18 months in Nam before being wounded and sent home. I saw many Marines come and go. I never saw any Marine come or go home with his rifle or pistol. A few of us, me included, did manage to appropriate our K-bars. I am 73. I was sent home at the end of 2015. I was 23 years old. On another note, if it is true, he stole the rifle, and you will be taking possession of property stolen from the US Government. A K-bar is one thing, but an M16 is a bit more serious.

I can tell you how alot of illegal things got back to the states, body bangs.