Barrel threading legality

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Cappi

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Today I went to a gunsmith here in N.Y. to have a Holland muzzle brake attached to my Savage single shot 6mm rifle.The gunsmith advises that he could not thread my barrel and attach the muzzle brake UNLESS the muzzle brake was to be PERMANENTLY attached. Has the BATF passed any new laws as of todays date 7/21/08 that make barrel threading illegal for removable muzzlebrakes ? Or has this gunsmith been misinformed ? The rifle in question does not have a pistol grip, bayonet lug or accept a magazine with a capacity greater than ten rounds . Its a bull barreled single shot.
 
Hmmmm

Sounds like he might be afraid that the user will screw a controled device such as a silencer on the barrel. And, in New York, I suppose you can't be too careful......jackie
 
Cappi said:
Today I went to a gunsmith here in N.Y. to have a Holland muzzle brake attached to my Savage single shot 6mm rifle.The gunsmith advises that he could not thread my barrel and attach the muzzle brake UNLESS the muzzle brake was to be PERMANENTLY attached. Has the BATF passed any new laws as of todays date 7/21/08 that make barrel threading illegal for removable muzzlebrakes ? Or has this gunsmith been misinformed ? The rifle in question does not have a pistol grip, bayonet lug or accept a magazine with a capacity greater than ten rounds . Its a bull barreled single shot.
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I think your gunsmith has been misinformed... All the factory rifles that have muzzle brakes are threaded and hundreds more are being threaded every day... if the law was recently changed, it would have been on a gun forum by now...
 
Maybe.........

.....he is afraid the customer will thread on a "Tuner".:D
 
kinda hard to hit the legal limit on banned items on a rifle. there is a list. but only have one ot two is no big deal...its a throw back to the "assault weapons" description. tell him do it or find a new smith.

mike in co
 
Remember he's in New York. That may be what the local authorities at telling him. Control by insinulation.
To my knowledge there is no prohibition with threading the end of the barrel. The threads don't make the rifle illegal all of a sudden. If someone screws an unlicensed can on the front then owner is going to get in trouble. Over the years I threaded several rifles to use both a muzzle breaks and a legal cans. When I see muzzle breaks removed from the Brownell's catalog, then I'll think something has changed.

Dave
 
When the "assault rifle" ban came out a few years ago, it was necessary to "permanently" attach the brake. That law went out the window when the Bush administration let it lapse. You can legally thread without concern for the Federal law, I think.

How is that for an answer?
 
Jkob said:
When the "assault rifle" ban came out a few years ago, it was necessary to "permanently" attach the brake. That law went out the window when the Bush administration let it lapse. You can legally thread without concern for the Federal law, I think.

How is that for an answer?
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ssorta correct. some states still have thier own ban in place, but it is a collections of listed assets of the rifle, like bayonet lug, pistol grip, detachable mag, muzzle brake( but not flash arrestor or the other way around). a single item is no big deal....so thread away.
 
Cappi,
You are confusing the bolt action gun with the AR-15 type rifles we were talking about. The bolt actions are ok to thread and attach a brake. It is the
AR-15's that have to have the threaded brake's attached permently. Additionally, no "flash hiders" can be attached to AR-15 type rifles in NY.

The "assault weapons" restrictions never sun seted in NY state. The scum legislators in NY State passed a state law that mirrors the old Federal law before the federal law sun seted.
 
To the best of my knowledge, you can have a threaded barrel in NYS if there is no folding stock involved. That was A question asked to the State Police on Tuesday from my local gun store. A 10/22 with a threaded barrel and a thread protector was shipped in for a transfer.
Kim
 
Fixinit said:
To the best of my knowledge, you can have a threaded barrel in NYS if there is no folding stock involved. That was A question asked to the State Police on Tuesday from my local gun store. A 10/22 with a threaded barrel and a thread protector was shipped in for a transfer.
Kim
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That's the secret to super accuracy, a folding stock!!!!! Without a folding stock the rifle is not to be feared :D
 
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