From:	Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Rules: full auto conversion
Date:	Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:47:53 -0400

On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Sebastian Wiers wrote:

> >
> > >And as far as I know there's still nothing illegal about buying a
> > >semiautomatic weapon and converting it to full-auto yourself. There
> > >are even "how-to" books for sale that show step-by-step methods
for
> > >doing exactly that on a wide variety of common semiautomatic rifles.

> Nothing Illegal?!? I thought this was very illegal- isn't that part of what
> they went after David "Bar-b-q" Koresh for?

There's a difference between converting a registered firearm and
manufacturing fully automatic weapons from scratch (without a license, no
less).

Marc