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Originally Posted by Streck-Fu
I don't agree with it. If the weapon can be modified to safely and permanently make the weapon semi-auto, it should be permitted.
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I did not mean I agreed with the ATF’s practices. I meant I agree that the ATF would see the receiver as a MG. My point was that for all intensive purposes it was a fully functional MG with a spot welded selector. Also the guns seemed to freely move around outside of the NFA registry. (My assumption).
Of course there are all kinds of formally full-auto platforms that have been modified to semi-auto. That is a little different in that there are certain conditions to completely change a Title II status to a Title I status. There are strict rules that govern such modifications. The M14NM and M14M would have been foul to all of them.
The M14M, as the above poster pointed out, was something different. I have not seen anything like that since. Have you ever seen a Full-auto (Title II ) AK47 with a welded selector that was being put up for sale as a Title I Semi?(Personally, I would say that’s likely a ATF sting.) It is a weird configuration and seems unlikely for the obvious reasons of the ATF calling foul.