Thread: a cat endorsed onto your e cat

Originally Posted by steven

Anyone considered this to do a Cat C M16 "machine gun" into a Cat E semi-auto MSSA? I'd quite like to shoot a "proper" ex-military M16 rather than an AR15 in service rifle. Ive seen a few M16s still with fire select for full auto at reasonable money.
regards

Since its not illegal to do it (as in there is nothing in the law preventing it) there is no reason why not. In the past plenty of full-autos were brought into the country and converted to semi-auto (how do you think G3s arrived here).

Under current police practice it is not permitted after they adopted a policy of "once a machinegun, always a machinegun". This of course has no basis in law and if you wanted to spend the money you would probably win on a legal challenge. Especially since there are already plenty of "ex-machine guns" in circulation. It also highlights how completely illogical the police policy is on Semi-autos where they will not allow people to restrict the operation of a full-auto to semi-auto on a matter of principle only.