Help me find a 308 Upper

[Phil Goode]

In the unlikely event you built it with a place holder upper last year yielding a grandfathered featured bullet buttoned semiautomatic center fire rifle you intend to register, get a stripped SMOS Arms upper. Note a lower is not a grandfathered assault weapon, and assembling it into a banned configuration is a felony.

Otherwise sell it (or set it aside for a rainy day) and buy a matched set with upper, lower, and perhaps handguard. If there's a fore end you're especially attached to buy matching receivers in the appropriate top rail height - pre-2009 DPMS "high" / Armalite (different barrel nut threads), and post-2009 DPMS "low".

With no milspec, large frame AR receivers are all reverse-engineered from either the DPMS LR-308 (radius rear cut) or Armalite AR10 (angled cut. The KAC SR-25 may be the original there with those companies sharing some parts and perhaps blueprints) with varying guesses on measurements.

Sometimes allegedly compatible receivers don't fit. My Aero Precision M5E1 won't close on my genuine DPMS LR-308 lower because the rear cuts don't match close enough. The charging handle on my Alex Pro upper won't clear my M5 lower (that upper is well made - tight fit on a barrel extension, scalloped 1913 cuts, T-marks).

Most of the time they just don't fit like a gun that expensive should. I wasn't happy with the rattle from all four uppers I tried on my LR-308, and Fulton Armory couldn't find one I'd be happy with when I sent them the lower to find a mate.



That's the best option.

Unfortunately, they are not making any matching uppers at this time. And what do you mean by,"Note a lower is not a grandfathered assault weapon, and assembling it into a banned configuration is a felony." I purchased this on Dec. 21 of 16 and picked it up on Dec 31 of 2016? Sorry, It's kind of off topic right now. But Im just curious.

[Phil Goode]

Also, I was looking at this rifle stock. https://usa.caagearup.com/buttstocks...0&pageNumber=1
Just wondering if anyone is familiar with it. And will it work with my lower?

[Phil Goode]

https://usa.caagearup.com/srs-long-m...n-sniper-stock.
This is what I was looking at.

[Drew Eckhardt]

Unfortunately, they are not making any matching uppers at this time. And what do you mean by,"Note a lower is not a grandfathered assault weapon, and assembling it into a banned configuration is a felony." I purchased this on Dec. 21 of 16 and picked it up on Dec 31 of 2016? Sorry, It's kind of off topic right now. But Im just curious.

You can't legally assemble your lower into a bullet-buttoned featured configuration unless you populated it, installed a bullet button, added a stock/buffer assembly, and mated an upper on December 31st.

It is not a grandfathered assault weapon because a lower is not a rifle (it could be a title 1 other like a 1919), not semiautomatic (you could use a single shot bolt action upper), not center fire (you could has a 22lr sub-caliber insert), and lacks an evil feature.

Fixed magazine and featureless are the only legal options for you.

Doing otherwise violates PC 30600 manufacture of an assault weapon which is a felony.

This comes from a plain-English reading of California Penal Code, which stands regardless of what happens to DOJ's over-reaching regulations.

[Phil Goode]

So I could build it with a mag lock then?

[Phil Goode]

And just an update. I was wrong about this being a DPMS style lower. After scouring the interweb, I realized it is an Armalite style lower. I'm finding out that building a 308 isn't as easy as an ar-15. Thanks everyone for your input.

[wade1234]

An upper plus a pistol grip, no mag function might have circumvented it as well.


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