Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: cafe owner has AR-15 to defend Obama mural [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)If you take components made for a M-16 produced today, and try to put them in ANY commercially produced AR-15 produced today, you will have an unfireable, non-fitting mess. No AR-15 made legally after 1986 will accept M-16 parts.
This is not just a matter of needing to shave the receiver down or adding a hole, you have to ADD metal to it to make things fit. Or in other words, you must machine or forge an entirely new receiver to accept M-16 parts.
Or to put it another way, you must manufacture a new M-16 yourself. (Illegal)
Is it possible? Yes. People break the law all the time. They make new AK-47's and AK-74's that fire full auto as well.
But no, there is no longer any parity between the two platforms due to the compliance with the 1986 law requiring that civilian rifles no longer be convertible to full automatic with a ready availability of replacement parts. Meaning, they cannot accept drop-in components from their military cousins. The receivers are now different.
You are wrong.