M2 parts - possessing and selling?

[einstine]

A full auto gun is fun to shoot a few times but after that it is no big deal so dont take the chance. if you realy want one then buy one the leagle way. and stay out of jail.

[Troy (WA)]

Rick, I was given a bunch of gun parts at the pawn shop where we first met. In those parts was some disconnectors and selector levers, 15 each. I contacted a guy I know at ATF and even though Fed law says OK, Washington law prohibits possession of any machine gun parts. I boxed them up and turned them in. FYI

RCW 9.41.190
Unlawful firearms

(1) It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, own, buy, sell, loan, furnish, transport, or have in possession or under control, any machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle; or any part designed and intended solely and exclusively for use in a machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle, or in converting a weapon into a machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle; or to assemble or repair any machine gun, short-barreled shotgun, or short-barreled rifle.

[edlmann]

The disconnector, spring and plunger are three of the parts not necessary for an M1 and are part of the M2 set. The hammer can be used in both but is also one of the seven parts for conversion. Though the slide, sear and trigger housing are needed, they are not part of the conversion and are common replacement parts.

Plainfield used to make M2 carbines and shipped their M1 carbines with M2 slides and hammers. They used a hardware store washer as a spacer to take up the gap in the hammer that would be taken up by the disconnector in a M2.

I'd like to have a fake M2 selector setup, like some make fake selector parts for the M1A and other M14 clones. It would take a trigger housing, selector switch, spring, and the pivot pin from the disconnector trip lever.

OTOH, who needs the grief just to annoy the busybodies at the range?

FWIW; AFAIK; IMHO; YMMV; yadda, yadda, yadda.

Regards, Ed Mann

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