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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Honest question. If you bought this lot yourself and found these guns in it, would you....

After getting my finger prints off them, I would pack them back up like I never opened them. Then set them aside and just waited. "Oh those, I never got around to opening them."

That or I'd be busy shoveling.

We all know the people responsible for losing these will never ever be held to account. Why should someone who innocently came into their possession risk financial ruin and years in prison? The JBT only go after the ignorant, not the willing. Eff them.

Damn. I never get that lucky.

Technical question from one who's never assembled an AR -

IF you received this shipment
AND you turned in just the stripped full-auto or burst receivers that were illegal to own
THEN would legal semi-auto receivers plug-and-play in these weapons?

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Originally posted by whanson_wi:
Technical question from one who's never assembled an AR -

IF you received this shipment
AND you turned in just the stripped full-auto or burst receivers that were illegal to own
THEN would legal semi-auto receivers plug-and-play in these weapons?

No. Semi-auto receivers would not allow full auto operation without being drilled to accommodate an auto sear. In fact, by removing the auto sear completely from a FA M16 would effectively make it a semiautomatic weapon.

Years ago, my agency obtained several M4’s and a couple of M16A2’s from government transfer. They were SUPPOSED to be completely defanged by the removal and replacement of auto sears, FA selector switches, and disconnectors. When we eventually moved to replace them with new production M4’s, I was tasked with disassembling the old weapons do that the evil automatic receivers could be shipped off for destruction. The 2 A2’s both still had tri-burst assemblies in them and functioned as semi-auto only. The only things missing which would have reset them to giggle mode were the correct selector and auto sear.

Actually, that sounds like "yes". I was interested in if the weapons would still have value without the receivers.

If the case were full of high-end camera equipment or any other legal equipment, I don't think it need be returned. Similarly, if the weapons themselves - without the illegal receivers - were otherwise usable, I don't think they need be returned, either. These people bought a batch of boxes that could have had anything or nothing in them; they took the risk, and should get any legal reward.

I imagine a court case somewhere proves me wrong.

Someone has sort of beat me to it but I'd take them all apart, keep the best condition parts and sell the rest of the parts gradually.

As for the lower receivers, after cleaning off any fingerprints, put them in a box and send to a random LE agency in a state far away.

I would guess if there is one lot like this in the sale, there could be more.
If another person were to report that I would also guess the Fed's would check out other lots in the sale.
In the news story it says they showed up the next day with search warrants and went through everything in this storage unit. Some thanks for that guy being honest.
In any case, if you were another party that happened to buy another lot from this sale and didn't report this and then got caught, I suspect they might not have a good sense of humor about that oversight.

It makes for a fun discussion , but in reality I would not want anything to do with a case of illegal automatic weapons . No silly ass gameplaying or stripping of parts , etc. Get that shit away from me ..

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Originally posted by whanson_wi:
Technical question from one who's never assembled an AR -

IF you received this shipment
AND you turned in just the stripped full-auto or burst receivers that were illegal to own
THEN would legal semi-auto receivers plug-and-play in these weapons?

Yes. You could take all the parts off of the lower. Then you could put all of the parts (minus the auto-sear) on a new semi-auto lower with a new serial number. You would have a legal running semi-auto rifle.