Pre Ban Eagle arms S/N

[Savgun]

Hello all,

I am looking to get into the AR-10 side of rifles. I have been shooting and working on the AR-15 platform for over 25 years and want to shoot further and with more power.  

I have the chance to buy an Eagle Arms AR-10 that the seller says is pre ban and I need to be pre ban (Connecticut). Can someone help me with the serial numbersfor pre ban Eagle Arms?

[shepp]

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[98Z5V]

Contacting Armalite might be the only way you can do it.  There is nothing online that you can look up and reference build dates for these rifles/components.

[survivalshop]

Here is an a quote from Brownells on what you really need for it to be a Pre ban .

 

" When the law was signed, the various manufacturers were caught with shop floors full of rifles in some stage of assembly and the BATF made a slight change in how the law would be interpreted. Previously, a rifle was a serial numbered receiver. After the Crime Bill became law, they defined a rifle as an assembled rifle, or a parts kit together as a package.

That means, if you were making AR’s and had 5,000 finished receivers in inventory, but had only enough parts to assemble 1,000 receivers into complete rifles, you now had 1,000 Pre-ban rifles and 4,000 Post-ban receivers in your shop, even though the receivers were manufactured before the bill had been signed into law. To make things even worse for identification purposes, the serial numbers may not have been in strict numerical order.

Also, add in this additional complication: if you as a retail customer or dealer had a lower receiver on hand that was manufactured before the law was signed, but you didn’t have all the parts on hand to assemble it into a complete rifle, you could not now assemble it into a legal, Pre-ban rifle. If you had all the parts on hand before the bill was signed into law, you could still assemble it into a legal, Pre-ban configuration.

If someone comes into your shop with a box full of parts, and wants you to assemble it into a rifle, you had better see the invoices for the parts so you can verify that they were all purchased before September 13, 1994. Without invoices to prove when the parts were purchased, it would not be legal to assemble it into a Pre-ban rifle. However, if he has invoices to prove all parts were in his possession prior to the signing of the Crime Bill, then it’s okay to build it. Can you fit a new upper to a Post-ban rifle? Sure. If it is a parts kit with a threaded barrel you’ll have to cut off the threads and grind or file off the bayonet lug."

 

  So in other words , he better have documents that it is .what it is , for your sake . Here is the whole " Tech Tip " for your reading , it talks about AR 15's , but pertains to all AR's for the Ban .

http://www.brownells.com/userdocs/documents/bt002007.pdf

Edited November 16, 2017 by survivalshop