GBBR M4/M16 & Variants now a real firearm

[quadro]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UoszsK0zp2AJ:www.atf.gov/regulations-rulings/rulings/atf-rulings/atf-ruling-2010-4.html+Air+gun+ruling+ATF&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Big loss in the airsoft community. Currently there are people trying to contact BATF to get a better explanation and reasoning.

[ultimentra]

I saw this on arnies, I thought it was overturned by the supreme court.

[quadro]

it has gone back and forth. this is as of Nov. 5, 2010

[yellow_fever]

That sucks. Seems like GBBRs were just starting to become affordable and skirmishable.

[quadro]

That sucks. Seems like GBBRs were just starting to become affordable and skirmishable.

It's not all GBBR's, just the M4/M16 variants. The big issue is with the lower receiver since they are able to modify it it take real steel uppers and trigger groups and then fire live rounds.

[AxisOfOil]

i can modify a piece of stiff cardboard to accept a realsteel ar upper and have it fire rounds as well. I can still get those at walmart, however.

[yellow_fever]

That's exactly why it doesn't make sense. I can make and own my guns in my garage, but I can't own a gas powered pellet gun without a permit?

I just wish ATF and the government would actually read their own laws before making new ones that defeat the purpose. That's all. A little consistancy would be nice.