Home Made parts count toward 922r?

[Bug Splat 2]

I have been trying to find exactly where the line is drawn for homemade parts. It seems that if I make a stock from the tree in my backyard its considered Made in the USA so therefor it counts but what if I modify the original parts? If I were to wrap the OEM plastic stock in lets say Carbon Fiber and add a rear trap door like on AR's would that count as made in the USA?

[Bvamp 604]

you arent really changing anything for the most part, so i would have to say no.

 

now if you took a wood blank and roughed it out, then wrapped and formed it, yeh, thats a new US part.

 

grinding a hungarian AK trigger to work in a saiga stock gun does not make it a US remanufactured part....

[KC913 324]

A slightly modified foreign part is still a foreign part, as far as I know. I have seen vendors (none from here) sell foreign parts that are simply stamped "USA", but personally, I wouldn't want to risk it. Odds are, the alphabet police will never catch you violating 922r, but I don't want to be the first person it happens to.

[nalioth 405]

The revenuers have decreed that the part should change functions.

 

Ergo, if you take a Romanian butt stock and cut pistol grips out of it, you've got yourself "US made" pistol grips.

 

As mentioned above, you can't take a foreign trigger and reshape it and call it US made. However you can melt it down and make a US made disconnecter or hammer out of it (the part has changed function).

 

 

 

 

Anything you make at your home from bar stock or wood from the lumber yard is going to be US made, don't you think?

[Bug Splat 2]

Ok, thanks guys. I'll have to think about if I want to make my own furniture or just buy a US set.

[g.j.stoll@gmail.com 0]

If I where to change out the hand guard on a stock rifle would I have to worry at 922®?