Modern Sporting Rifles still easy to get?

[jmacpi33]

Won't MSR manufacturers and local gun shops just start selling complete lowers and uppers separate in 2017? Without the flash hiders, pistol grips, fore grips and include a fixed stock? Should there really be a panic? Price maybe goes up a bit with the need for a rifle grip over a pistol grip.

[SheepDog78]

The only ones panicking should be those who want to buy something to register as an AW, which has to be received prior to the end of the year. For featureless, correct there is no need to panic. That is until the next round of bills from the legisexual deviants which will aim to outlaw anything capable of firing a projectile.

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[CandG]

Won't MSR manufacturers and local gun shops just start selling complete lowers and uppers separate in 2017? Without the flash hiders, pistol grips, fore grips and include a fixed stock? Should there really be a panic? Price maybe goes up a bit with the need for a rifle grip over a pistol grip.

While technically legal (we think) to sell seperated uppers and lowers, in my opinion it's quite unlikely that manufacturers will play that game. Selling piles of uppers and piles of lowers, ESPECIALLY when the buyer acquires both during the same transaction, would be relatively good proof of intent to assemble an unregistered AW. Far more likely is that we'll see standard MSR's on the shelves that have been converted (either by the factory or by the LGS) into featureless rifles. And of course, stripped lowers and other parts will still be available the same as they were before.

In other words, while all the parts to make an AW will still be available, it's extremely unlikely that any sellers or manufacturers will be putting all those parts together in a neat package deal and saying "Now, promise you won't assemble this when you get home". Too risky for them.