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straightlinespeed said

I thought you had to have the FFA license and what not to be able to own a FA. I've never looked into it in depth, but its something I've wanted. I've also been looking for a real M203, to mate up with my wifes gun. Thats what she carried, I passed on one at the gun show and havent seen one since.. DOH!!!

Also how come you cant just buy the parts, I've seen them sold online and then register it as a FA

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First:

The FFL (not ffa) you allude to is strictly for selling any gun for a business or manufacturer. Don’t need it to own a FA, nor are all FFLs what they call Class 3 FFLs, most aren’t. You yourself can buy one, just pay the 200 dollar tax stamp to the ATF and wait about a year for the background check to go through.

As to the M203, that can be found. But it’s a 5 dollar federal tax stamp and registration as an other than destructive Device.

The reason you can’t legall buy the part and then register a new FA is because the Hughes amendment of the 1968 gun control act put a closing date of May 1986 on registerations. Every FA had to be registered by that date. Anything not, became illegal.

Now there is a manufacturer exception to that IF you have the class 6 I believe it is, FFL. But to get that, it’s some 5000 bucks a year plus you have to have a minimum sales requirement.