HELP: Threaded barrel question on handgun

[RickD427]

You cannot have a compensator attached to the 1911 barrel with a set of functional threads.

To do so would make an illegal "Assault Weapon" per Penal Code section 30515(a)(4)(A).

About the only real solution if you want a compensator is to have one permanently attached to the barrel, or to have an extended barrel with compensator cuts. You could also remove the weapon from being an "Assault Weapon" by making the magazine fixed, but that's not really going to work for a competition weapon.

It is possible that you could also find a compensated "Pre-Ban" 1911 that the owner had the foresight to register as an "Assault Weapon". Such a weapon would be legal with the threaded compensator in place.

[JTROKS]

Sales of registered assault weapons in California will never happen unless it's a departmental letterhead specific for LEOs, or Hollywood.

People used to blind pin and solder comps for a permanent installation and it was legal. With today's changing requirements that may have become void as a permanent fix.

[Frederick1]

I was planning on modifying the mag catch such that it had to be removed with a "tool" - a Glock disassembly tool or breech flag like I use on my M-4 with a bullet button in order to be CA compliant.

[saki302]

A 1911 is easy.

I had Dave Lawver install a cone type (bushingless) comp for me on my P14.

When the barrel got hard chromed, you can just make out a circle in the finish where he pinned and welded it. Best thing about it is, 1911 barrels remove from the front

One word of warning- true comped guns need pretty hot ammo to function. I saw a 9mm glock comp at the Burbank shoot- it would not function right even with a lightened slide- probably needs a borderline functional 9# recoil spring to work.

They eat up all your recoil energy needed to function the slide. My P14 wouldn't work until I had the slide lightened, and I'm running a 10# spring. Empties gently roll out the right side

-Dave