Benelli M4 Tactical

[whtl]

My Benelli M4 Tactical is 922r compliant, am I still able to transfer to another party? Thanks

[Varg Vikernes]

Why wouldn't you?

[dieselpower]

because its an AW right now

[DevilDawgJJ]

because its an AW right now

Not to be a dick, but you have a code to cite?

[Glockrocks]

Can the OP change out the stock to a non pistol grip stock if the current stock is telescopic?

[tinman1975]

I think that's a pretty deep reading into the regs trying to call a m4 tube mag detatchable. I'd love to see you pull off the mag tube without first yanking the barrel which has the flange that protrudes into the receiver, and applying copious amounts to heat to break the red loctite....it could be done with a pipe wrench I guess....but at the cost of possibly destroying your mag tube. Pulling the barrel is about as close to " opening the action" as I can think of in a closed receiver. Also, is it still considered a magazine when the spring and follower launch across the room and leave you holding an empty tube when you " detatch" the magazine? And I actually like the field stock better anyways......so mine is "featureless" I guess

[champu]

because its an AW right now

The AW regs are bad, don't get me wrong, but this is FUD. The Benelli M4 (assuming it doesn't have both a pistol grip AND telescoping stock) is not an assault weapon now, nor was it last year.

[CandG]

You can buy one off-the shelf, so yes you can sell one too.

Apparently the DOJ reg's raised some questions about some tube magazines being considered detachable (by unscrewing them), which is why DieselPower raised that point - however, the M4 requires you to remove the barrel before you can remove the tube, and since the barrel is part of the action, that makes it a fixed magazine even under the new poorly-written DOJ regs. (The tube has a taper on the receiver-end that will not fit through the barrel hoop, so the barrel has to be removed first)

[champu]

I don't know why, but I just got a chuckle out of picturing Kevin De Leon standing at a podium trying to reload an M4 by swapping magazines while rambling about a "gauge tube loophole."

[dieselpower]

The tube was a problem, but the fact it has a pistol grip and a collapsing stock makes it an AW. Just because its 922r (man-bear-pig) compliant isnt the restricting factor in its transfer.

[tinman1975]

The tube was a problem, but the fact it has a pistol grip and a collapsing stock makes it an AW. Just because its 922r (man-bear-pig) compliant isnt the restricting factor in its transfer.

Collapsable stocks were already a no-no.......nobody was legally sporting the collapsable stock even before the new regs came out.

[CandG]

Collapsable stocks were already a no-no.......nobody was legally sporting the collapsable stock even before the new regs came out.

Not true, they were only illegal when combined with a pistol grip. A collapsing stock without a pistol grip was/is perfectly legal.

My M4 technically has both, but I've pinned the collapsing stock.

[tinman1975]

Not true, they were only illegal when combined with a pistol grip. A collapsing stock without a pistol grip was/is perfectly legal.

My M4 technically has both, but I've pinned the collapsing stock.

Who makes a collapsable stock without a pistol grip for the bennelli m4? And don't say trying to use the tube and stock part alone without the pistol grip..... Because it would hardly be functional. The OP asked if he could sell his Benelli M4..... Trying to go way off on a tangent to say it's an assault weapon is just grasping straws imo or even making assumptions that he already had a collapsable stock with a pistol grip on it ( which he didn't say). And even if he did have a collapsable stock on it.....he would still be able to transfer it....just put the original stock back on....the new regs haven't changed anything for him.....stating so matter of factly that " it's an assault weapon now" is just spreading FUD.

[CandG]

Who makes a collapsable stock without a pistol grip for the bennelli m4?

haha, good point, I forgot this was an M4-specific thread My post was meant to be in regards to shotguns in general. IF someone made such a thing for the M4 though, it would be legal, but indeed I too have never seen one.

I suppose you could put a grip-fin/grip-wrap on the pistol grip to make such a thing. Not that I would ever condone defacing an M4 in that way

[tinman1975]

Yeah .... No worries...I just hate to see all kinds of unnecessary panic being spread when nobody knows for sure how any of this stuff is going to be implemented. As a side note though...OP....why on earth would you wanna get rid of your M4? If anything, these new stupid AW regs have made mine even MORE valuable to me.