My advice is from years of Gunsmithing and knowing the Laws, and we here at G&G are trying to Help you.You are the person that has something to gain from all this if you do it Right. There are a lot of Garand Rebuilders that will do the work, setting the barrel and Headspace being the most difficult part, the rest is installing the parts properly and re-assembling the rifle. You can also Sell the parts kit for a good sum if you don't want to have a gun built.įor a few Hundred bucks you can have a Great shooting Legal Rifle, or you can make 300-400 dollars selling the parts kit and put that towards another Rifle. You now have a Garand Parts Kit that can be built into a fine rifle, by purchasing a Legal Receiver and having it built. Then cut the receiver either with a torch or a Chop saw into 3 pieces thru the Magazine well, behind the barrel, leaving enough of the front so that the barrel can be removed (it Unscrews). What you MUST do is disassemble the gun completely, remove the trigger assy, the bolt, op rod, all the small components, pins, sight, etc.

Your gun can be a legal, Firing, Sellable Weapon IF you buy another receiver that is numbered, and have all of your parts put on the new receiver. The BATFE classes the Receiver as the gun itself.Nothing else. Your gun still has value since it is complete with an altered receiver.Welding it up does nothing as far as legality, now you have destroyed value as well and still Have an Illegal Weapon, even though it is non operable.

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