Len Savage story on Lew Dobbs/CNN - NFA conviction for malfunctioning Semi-Auto AR

[scewper]

Better be more careful while driving. I'm guessing if your gas pedal got stuck and somehow you accelerated out of control you could be charged with illegal street racing.

[eguns-com]

I don't think there is more here than meets the eye. This was a 20 year old Olympic Arms AR-15 that came from the factory with a three position selector and an M-16 trigger group, although those are not the parts that make it FA.

Actually not. By the serial number, the firearm was manufactured some time in 1990. At that time, Oly was not using M16 parts in their guns. Someone, maybe the defendant, stated that worn parts were replaced by DPMS parts. It is possible that they were replaced with DPMS tri-burst parts (this is indicated in a thread on another forum which included scans of court documents etc). Those replacement parts kits were easy to find at gun shows in the early 90s. The question is, who replaced the parts? The defendant? The kid who borrowed the gun? The feds?

Chad

[CCWFacts]

Waitaminute, from the docs posted on the thread on AR15, it sounds like the gun in question did have a three-position selector switch and a modified bolt? Even if it wasn't a complete conversion to an MG, if he has put even some "evil" parts into it, he's right on the line (maybe over the line) and really asking for trouble, and is not a blameless guy with a malfunctioning factory-parts gun.

I think MGs should be legal (I'm hoping we can start unwinding 922o after Heller) but if he has modified and evil parts in his gun, it's asking for big trouble.

I hope he is pardoned, of course. It's insane that even one minute of law enforcement resources are wasted worrying about selector switches. There's hardly a difference in the danger of a full-auto AR-15 and a semi-auto AR-15.

[DedEye]

How was he still able to own firearms after receiving a felony conviction for illegally carrying a concealed weapon in 1994?