Nice!!!! Keep us updated. This is one that I could see building in the near future. Who/where did you source your parts kit and plate???
Nice work!!!
CAD is another skill I need to learn. Cost of software and lack of time have kept me from taking the plunge. I hand write all of my cnc programs so I probably could have become proficient with a drawing program in the many, many hours I have writing and de-bugging programs.
Is there such a thing as a pre-'86 transferable side plate? Not that I would ever have the budget for such a thing, but that would be amazing.
every now and then a transferable side plate will pop up, pretty rare though just because of mess of removing the rivets. I know one person that found one pretty recently and ending up getting a parts kit for it and building it. Plate alone though was $20K. I hope to find one for mine one day if i ever get the money
You didn’t see the spot on the 4473 for “Just ****ing Cool”? The one I saw had a spot for rifle, pistol, other, and JFC.Looking good! I’ve got an odd question that I honk I asked someone with a semi 1919 before... What is this classified as? It’s not meant to be fired from the shoulder, so is it really a ‘rifle’. Technically you can fire it with one hand, even though it’s tripod mounted but that would be the biggest pistol I’ve ever seen! Obviously you don’t have to worry about a 4473 transfer since you are building it yourself, I was just curious how it would transfer if bought as a built, ready to go gun.
Looking good! I’ve got an odd question that I honk I asked someone with a semi 1919 before... What is this classified as? It’s not meant to be fired from the shoulder, so is it really a ‘rifle’. Technically you can fire it with one hand, even though it’s tripod mounted but that would be the biggest pistol I’ve ever seen! Obviously you don’t have to worry about a 4473 transfer since you are building it yourself, I was just curious how it would transfer if bought as a built, ready to go gun.
Ramo Manufacturing out of Nashville Tenn. made new transferable sideplates for the M 2 50 cal. and for the 1919 30 cal. They do come up for sale occasionally. Pricey.every now and then a transferable side plate will pop up, pretty rare though just because of mess of removing the rivets. I know one person that found one pretty recently and ending up getting a parts kit for it and building it. Plate alone though was $20K. I hope to find one for mine one day if i ever get the money
Ramo Manufacturing out of Nashville Tenn. made new transferable sideplates for the M 2 50 cal. and for the 1919 30 cal. They do come up for sale occasionally. Pricey.
How does that work with the 86 ban? I thought you couldn't own any machine guns made post 1986 without being a dealer? Can't remember what exactly type of FFL that is but if I remember right its a Type 1 or type 7 with an SOT of some sort. I think the only difference between the two having the right to "manufacture."
Nailed it. I still see new in the box MAC 9s and 10s for sale. One even sold on INGO recently, with the the NIB Sionic suppressor. Lot of speculators from 1986 made bank.They are registered "new old stock" sideplates, made before the ban. The sideplates are 100%, they've just never had the rest of the gun installed on them. I even saw a registered Maxim sideplate come up for sale a few years ago. Lots of sideplates, trigger packs, and auto sears were built and registered in the months after FOPA 86 was passed, but before it took legal effect. S&H Arms had new FNC auto sears for sale clear up until the late 90s because they had built and registered so many. Bushmaster sold their last new transferable M-16 in 1994. Ramo, Group Industries, and every other company in that business space at the time did the same because they could see the writing on the wall. Prices increased over the years as supply dwindled and demand increased. The sideplates and such you see for sale now are all on the secondary market - someone bought it new, never built it, and just happen to be selling it. There might still be a few "new" transferable guns or receivers in the big corporate collections (Ruger, Colt, etc.), but those aren't for sale and won't be coming out unless there is a bankruptcy and even then it is not guaranteed. Reed Knight got a lot of his rare Colt experimental guns as payment when Colt was in dire financial trouble and owed him a bunch of money for design work he had done for them.
ETA: That last transferable Bushmaster M-16 - I held it in my hands and viewed the special factory documentation that was with it when it was being resold at auction around 10 years ago. It was a real trip reading that factory letter!