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Question: a friend of mine is going to be moving to NJ for work soon, and has 30 rounders. Can he simply block the mags out to 15 with plastic or something and still be considered to be NJ legal? I mean, if the AC only applies to dealers/stores here in the state in regards to the permanence of the 15-roundness, then that can work, right?

This depends on the BG's capability to do you harm, and your relative location. If you're both in an area where the BG is not likely to be spotted or pursued by police, and he is armed equally to you (with a gun), then what's stopping him from coming from behind or on your holster-side and shooting you? He knows you're armed, you don't know his intention, and you don't know if he's armed. Heck, they look at you and simply see a "free gun".

Open carrying is like having the US NAVY sail their ballistic missile subs on the surface for the entire world to see. Whatever advantages there were to concealing those missiles in the event of nuclear war are completely lost by letting everyone know where they are. Same thing with personal arms. If someone knows I'm armed, they can just walk up behind me and put me down quick and grab it from 'my cold dead hands'.

I always wondered what would happen if phasers were really invented... and how the Gov't would try to regulate them... I bet they'd only let civilians use 'stun-only' ones. Otherwise, next time a home invasion happens, it will be "shoot, vaporize, and shut up", lol

Found some more info here with a letter straight from the BATF: LINK Again, up your interpretation...

Right... the only instances I've read about where it is an issue is with importers like Century International or Russian-American Armory... or anyone importing Benelli shotguns. As I mentioned, how would this even be enforced at the user-level? How can it even be proven? Do folks with 922r rifles have certificates that grant them some protection? Without some evidence of end-user enforcement, I don't really think this is something we need to worry about... but YMMV.

If that's the case, then how can it even be proven after it was imported? Not all replaced parts carry a 'made in usa' tag on them... I only ask this because on a whim, I began to search for 922r arrests/convictions (of an individual) to see if the Fed ever tried to make a case of it and came up empty. It appears to me that it's not only difficult to enforce, but difficult to prove... especially if you buy a 'once' imported rifle/shotgun, and buy it second-handed or third-handed. Hence, why I think it only applies to importers, where rifles arrive in one configuration (sporting) to meet US law, and then are modified by the importers for public sale. Aren't automobile imports regulated in a similar manner where at least 10% of parts need to be US-made? Does you car suddenly become illegal if you change those 10% of parts for foreign ones? I don't mean to butt heads with you here in regards to 922r compliance, but I am unsure of how this applies to folks like you and I since we're not importing rifles/shotguns, but are simply end-users.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/02/20/fnac-fn-advanced-carbine/#comments FN Has unveiled their new SCAR for the IC...

I'm sorry, how does this apply to us? Last time I checked, the 922r dealt with importers, not owners. Not to mention, how can one prove that the parts on their second hand Saiga or WASR are actually meeting the parts count? Even more: how can one tell which parts were made by who? Some (like a Tapco G2) say 'made in usa', but most other parts (wood for instance) do not...

I recently purchased a Glock 30SF (Short-Frame, with a reduced back-strap to fit my hand easily)... Friggin love it... Compact but fits the hand well.

Just the SCAR or AR-15 as well? I think you mentioned this before... did you happen to post it anywhere?

Don't forget the "SOCOM tax" for some of these rifles as well... I hear H&K loves to pull that crap with their crap. Make one popular stamped steel sub machine gun, and all of a sudden you poo gold. Personally, from a design P.O.V., the ACR is overpriced for no good reason. The entire rifle, from raw materials to final product, is easier to build (or of similar difficulty) than an AR-15. Same is probably true of a SCAR... though I've never disassembled one and looked at the parts. Anyways... the point I was trying to make is that the ACR is a higher value, lower cost alternate to a SCAR... even if you gotta buy a new barrel for it, shave down the ambi-safety, and get some metal BUIS on it... Then again, I'd wait for an ACR V2 to come out... then wait a few years till the price on that drops.

That's because they got some weird off-caliber rifle. Usually if you own something more 'mainstream' it'll hold value better. SCARs definitely sell well even if used... ACRs also tend to command decent premiums when used too.

Same in the sense that they're both folding stock piston driven 5.56 shooters. Battle proven history is a bit meaningless to me as a civilian, especially seeing as SCARs themselves have issues from time to time (as do ARs, AKs, ACRs, XCRs, etc), but from what I've gathered, despite a few flawed specimens, the ACR is a reliable platform. If it works, it works, if it doesn't it goes RMA or on the marketplace. The nice thing about the ACR is that I can buy one, get it reworked with the stuff I want, and still come out cheaper than a SCAR in the end. I mean, from my (engineering) perspective, the only major difference between the two is the barrel profile and twist. And even though there are limited accessories for the ACR, there are still more out there than what is available for the SCAR. It's simply a matter of the added value in relation to cost...

Meh... I don't see the value of owning a SCAR in NJ... For the cost of one of those, I can get a post-recall ACR with a pencil thin barrel from ADCO and have the same thing... not that I'd do that either any time soon.

Maybe you got a 'Vodka Special'... first one built after a long Russian weekend...

I hear they're making chemtrails to make us paranoid! /s

...and interpreted by the AG's office... which is silly.

Colt King Cobra owner here.. awesome wheelguns. I also own a modified Colt Python 'Race' Gun... dunno what I'm gonna do with that one... :/

It's weird... I can see the 'sportsmen' crowd crowing on about how a mag fed semi-auto wouldn't work... but I tend to feel that's a silly argument. Especially seeing as it can be a bit safer in a hunting environment, where you can keep the shotgun unloaded until you reach your tree-stand/blind and just pop in a box magazine. The trick here is getting around the Destructive Device classification... but that shouldn't be too difficult... especially if the shotty is simply a semi-auto, or even a pump...

That was weird... fixed it.

Looking at a Saiga-12 recently left me wondering: where are the US Made/Designed magazine fed shotguns? I understand shotties like the AA-12 (Destructive Device) exist, but what about civilian semi-autos with a magazine? I mean, it seems like using the magazine tube as you see it on Mossberg 500s and Remington 870s, you keep the weight in front of the action and help negate recoil effects, but it's also harder to reload and takes longer to manipulate. So why hasn't the US designed/marketed a mag-fed 12ga semi-auto shotty? Why waste time with Kel-Tec KSGs when you can use a drum mag?

Got it, will consider it.

Got enough Glocks... 17, 19, 21sf, 30sf...

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