If you make a part or change one can it be called made in USA?

[wlnt 2]

I took my Saiga buttstock and "remodeled" it to look more like an AK and less like a sporting rifle. It is shorter and contoured differently.

 

I don't know if this would make a difference but, if I weighed the amount of material that I used (that was made in the US), it is more than the original imported stock. In other words the buttstock contains over 50 percent of USA materials.

 

In case you haven't seen the buttstock here it is.

 

 

 

Can I count this as a part that was made in the USA? The same question would apply to Saiga magazines that are welded together.

 

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[kresk 10,063]

General consensus has always been 'once foreign made, always foreign made,' so don't think you could count your stock for compliance.

[BobAsh 582]

I would say no. It's still a rifle stock that was originally made in Russia. Same with the mags.

[okie shooter 0]

If the orginal stock is imported, no matter how much you change it, its still imported. Unless it was like steel, that you melted down and cast and milled, once imported, always imported in its orginal form and intent.