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I thought the whole rewelded receiver thing was hinky the first time I read about it. I was sure that the ATF was going to squash it and they did. I remember the excitement on the Gun and Knife forum when MKS was doing this and I kept thinking "you guys are suckers". Sorry it all turned out so badly.
The entire MKS debacle didn't center around their "re-welding" de-milled M14 receivers....but rather around the receivers they decided to use! The receivers in question were "de-milled in order to reassemble" in Isreal in the early 1970's. Similar receivers were very deliberately paired-up and then chop-sawed rather than flame-cut to obtain two long "front and rear" mated sections that were paired and wired together to facilitate re-assembly, and packed in oil-filled 55 gal drums. The de-milling procedure was SO transparently designed to facilitate re-assembly (and so correspondingly sure to attract the ATF's attention) that NO ONE would touch the receivers for nearly 3 decades, though they apparently were looked at by multiple people. ATF knew about these receiver chunks, and had let just about everyone know that they considered the de-milling procedure fraudulent, and the receivers STILL functional. It was NEVER a case of their "reassembly" being illegal, but rather that the de-milling of the "raw material" was contrary to ATF-approved procedure, and therefore fraudulent....meaning that the receivers were never really scrap!
The Kelly's knew ALL of this, and used those controversial receiver chunks anyway...and the rest, as they say, is history.