What ever happened to the MKS reweld case

[HighPowerShooter]

I have a M2 Slide and Sear. Can anyone tell me where I can get the rest of the parts.

I want to go BURRRRPPPPPPPP.

Drink cold soda REALLY fast!!

[smle-man]

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.

[John Kepler]

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.

[John Kepler]

I have a M2 Slide and Sear. Can anyone tell me where I can get the rest of the parts.

I want to go BURRRRPPPPPPPP.

I can remember when I was getting paid to "...go BURRRRPPPPPPPPP"...and didn't find it all that attractive at the time, certainly not enough to redefine the limits of Federal Law from the inside of a jail-cell!

[edlmann]

Calif Dept of Justice(!) has spent considerable time and effort telling dealers to alter M2 trigger housings. I know of many dealers in Calif who have sent their housings to machine shops to have them altered. I am not aware of any laws requiring this, but in Calif everyone knows the Bud Evers Story and all are afraid of DOJ.

This may be a matter of state law being more restrictive than Federal.