A fool for a client
If you’re charged with selling parts that convert AR-15s to machine guns, you may want to lawyer up instead of representing yourself.
Federal prosecutors claimed Bishop sold 1,400 of these kits throughout the country from 2013 to 2016 for $100 each. The kit included a piece of metal that could be placed in the lower receiver of the assault-style rifles to allow the gun to continually fire while the trigger was pressed down.
I’m guessing Drop In Auto Sears?
January 30th, 2018 at 7:14 pm
Lightning links?
January 30th, 2018 at 7:30 pm
The law might have changed but I know that a few years ago it was perfectly legal to possess a full auto sear. However, if you also possessed a weapon that could accept that sear, even if you didn’t put the sear in the weapon or even intend to, you would go to prison if you did not have the nfa paperwork on the sear.
January 30th, 2018 at 7:30 pm
And they are worried about bump stocks. HA!
January 30th, 2018 at 8:03 pm
Ill say Lightning Link because …
” Bishop then presented a defense that his product was for educational and informational purposes only, and that the instructions mailed out with the kit specifically outline what not to do — complete the fourth bend on the piece of aluminum — in order to keep the firearm legal.”
in the story .. DIAS has nothing bendable
January 30th, 2018 at 10:02 pm
Lightning link was my thought
January 31st, 2018 at 12:13 am
I *think* it’s still legal to own and possess a complete full-auto fire control group from an M16 if you don’t own a single firearm which can accept the parts.
I am not volunteering to be a test case either!
Drop in auto-sears and lightning links, however, have been ruled to be machine guns in and of themselves, so it’d be illegal to have or make one without a valid stamp.
January 31st, 2018 at 11:16 am
As have shoe strings and rubber bands… In short, anything the batfaeieios don’t like becomes a machine gun.
January 31st, 2018 at 2:04 pm
“Lols I’m innocent because I told them exactly what not to do *wink wink nudge nudge*” is … well, I hope he likes going to prison, because the judge ain’t gonna buy that.