Trouble?
Are you setting yourself up for ma whole lot of trouble if you own any other Stevens pistol? Even if you don/t mount the barrel. I don't even think you could use the barrel for an upgrade to a registered AOW. See this auction http://www.GunBroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=462473950
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I have a friend, who has a friend (you never know who monitors these forums) who has a Remington Nylon 66, .22 rifle that he's had since the early 70's. It's probably got more than 30,000 rounds through it.
Lately, it has begun to double and triple on a regular basis, almost always doubles every trigger-pull.
There have been several incidences where the whole magazine has gone off, several times all 18 rounds on a single trigger-pull. It's kind of neat when it happens, though totally uncontrollable---once it starts, he can't stop it.
Obvious dangers aside, I'm told that the Feds would consider it a machine gun, and can arrest him for simply not getting it fixed.
Like I said, it's pretty cool, and quite novel, and he'd rather not fix it, but he'd rather not go to jail either.
Any Jailhouse Lawyers out there know what the BATFE would do with something like this?0 -
Easy answer... if caught, minumum would be immediate confiscation. Maximum... 10 years and/or $250,000 fine. Most likely would be the former, unless the Feds can prove that the gun was intentionally modified to a full auto... which is not apparently the case.
A friend and I many years ago had a similar experience with an sncient & well used Colt 1911. We had been shooting it at out local range for the better part of an hour, when all of a sudden, it went full auto on a fresh magazine. Startled the c.r.a.p. right out of us, and the fellow running the range that day. When my friend tried it with a fresk mag. it shot fine, but when I tried it on the next mag. it tripled on me. The range safety fellow let us play with it for awhile, but when we were approached by an off duty LEO about 45 minutes later, the fun ended. Fortunately, both my friend and I were active duty military at the time, and were just warned to replace the worn out sear... which we did later that day.
Bert H.
Real Men use a SINGLE-SHOT!0 -
In my area, I've actually seen one, and heard of another and both of these turned out to be the firing pin spring.
The one I personally saw was a WWII vintage and the other was supposed to be from Korea. Both were supposedly shot a heck of a lot.
As in this post I've read about hammer/sear problems on and off over the years, and this would be a good area to check, but if that proves OK look at the firing pin spring being weak.
If you only have time to do two things so-so, or one thing well ... do the one thing!0
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