AR-15 .22LR FA

[Guest KCSTEVE]

I would like to convert an AR-15 to FA .22LR using a conversion kit and do the work myself.

Where or how do I begin the paperwork?

[1gewehr]

Unless you are a NFA manufacturer, such a conversion is not legal. Congress in it's 'wisdom' passed a law in 1986 forbidding the new manufacture of machineguns for private citizens. If you have a legal M-16, you can easily convert it to .22lr so that it will also fire full auto. Current price of a legal M-16 is running right at $10,000.

[Guest coldblackwind]

Unless you are a NFA manufacturer, such a conversion is not legal. Congress in it's 'wisdom' passed a law in 1986 forbidding the new manufacture of machineguns for private citizens. If you have a legal M-16, you can easily convert it to .22lr so that it will also fire full auto. Current price of a legal M-16 is running right at $10,000.

Yup.

[Guest Jcochran88]

Unless you are a NFA manufacturer, such a conversion is not legal. Congress in it's 'wisdom' passed a law in 1986 forbidding the new manufacture of machineguns for private citizens. If you have a legal M-16, you can easily convert it to .22lr so that it will also fire full auto. Current price of a legal M-16 is running right at $10,000.

And if you can afford 10k then you can afford to shoot it in the caliber it comes in.

[nightrunner]

X2 to everything that has been said in this thread so far.

[Guest KCSTEVE]

Thanks for the info!............ I've had worse ideas. I'm going to forget this one.

[Guest DaG]

I thought if the lower is a registered full auto item the upper can be any caliber ?? Or I am I way off base?

DaG

[Guest coldblackwind]

I thought if the lower is a registered full auto item the upper can be any caliber ?? Or I am I way off base?

DaG

Pretty sure thats right, but he doesn't have a registered full auto lower, he wanted to make one, and that is illegal.

[~48_South~]

If you dont have the 10k for a registered reciever you can try and find a registered DIAS for probably around 7k or a registered lightning link probably from 5k-7k

[1gewehr]

If you dont have the 10k for a registered reciever you can try and find a registered DIAS for probably around 7k or a registered lightning link probably from 5k-7k

Prices are a bit out of date. Drop-In Auto Sears run the same as a receiver, and Lightning Links are running 8-9K. Lightning Links are notorious for not running well with .22 kits. The bolt carrier simply doesn't have enough mass to trip it.