10/22 pre-ban or not
Went to a gunshow this weekend and saw a 10/22 w/ folding stock. Had a sign on the gun calling it a pre-ban. From what I understand you can only posess a 10/22 w/ a folding stock if the folding stock was installed before the ban. Then you could go back and forth between folding stock and stock stock[:D] as much as you wanted.
Question is how do you know by looking at a 10/22 if it is a pre-ban or not? Is there a cut-off serial # or what?
Question is how do you know by looking at a 10/22 if it is a pre-ban or not? Is there a cut-off serial # or what?
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To the best of my knowledge, you can add a folding-stock to ANY pre-ban 10/22 receiver (in other words, you can buy a folder now, and install it, as long as the RECEIVER is pre-ban). I am sure there is specific serial number cut-off, but I don't know it - I'd love to know this one too. I might try to contact Ruger and see if I can get an answer, unless someone else here knows?!?!
Don't take my words as gospel, but I am 99% sure that it is the receiver that has to be pre-ban (and not when you installed it). Besides, unless the receiver was made post-ban, how could they prove you didn't already have it installed?
It doesn't matter what you shoot, just shoot it well...0 -
There is no such thing as pre or post ban Ruger 10-22's. The assault weapon ban applies to center-fire rifles only, not rim fires.
The sign probably refered to the stock & not the gun.
Thats my take on it.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Laredo Lefty
The assault weapon ban applies to center-fire rifles only, not rim fires.
[xx(]If this is true, then why is it that only the 10/22 has all the high cap magazines, custom stocks and the rest of the goodies. My brother was told by a local gun shop that his new Remington 597 rifle(which is a semi-auto 22LR) would never have anything larger than a 10 round magazine, because of that ban. If this is wrong please let me know.[?]0 -
The magazine change was to new manufactured weapons (post-ban if you wish), but the 10/22 was never an assault rifle. Magazine capacity was on all guns. Other assault rules applied to center fire guns only.
It's all a mess and a bunch of BS. We'll see what happens at the sunset of these rules.
Measure twice, cut once.
Empty the clip!0 -
Jason.... The reason there are so many after market mags, stocks, flash supressors, and other goodies is because the Ruger 10-22 is the hottest selling .22 in the country. So the people who manufacture these extras have a huge market to sell to.
As far as the mags go, the 25 rd and 50 rd mags were made before the ban. The mags made before the ban can still be sold, there just cannot be anymore made that hold more than 10 rds. This applies to both rim-fire and center-fire mags. The fixed tubular mags on many .22's are exempt.
The reason you see so many high-cap mags for the 10-22 is that so many were made before the ban, that there is still a supply of them out there, but the price has gone sky-high.0 -
Jason, Lefty is correct, the Ruger 10/22 was never issued in any configuration as an 'assault' rifle only the mini's with an "F" designation after the model numbers, is on the Assault Rifle Ban list. The "F" means folding stock.
The accessories are the where you have to be concerned and each state has different laws regarding magazine capacities. The manufacturers are limited by the 1994 Gun law to 10 rounds , unless military or police production.
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