SB281 Blaster
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Welcome aboard SB281 Blaster.
Consider posting here in the 'Introductions' forum"
http://www.mdshooters.com/forumdisplay.php?f=119
AFAIK, nowhere in Maryland law is the diameter of the barrel before or after the gas block codified. I know many FFLs go with the .750 (I think), and some say it cannot have the 'notch'.
Some MD FFLs have sold some M&P Sports as an HBAR, and some will not. I don't believe there is any law or rule as to whatis an HBAR.
Like art, or porno, we know it when we see it.
I agree there is no law or rule, just what MSP is enforcing at any given time. What I have done is look at a Colt Sporter HBAR barrel (the allowed exception). It has certain obvious diameters along the length of barrel, or it's profile. Because MSP over the years has included copies of listed rifles as regulated rifles it makes sense in balance for them to include copies of the excluded Colt Sporter HBAR as excluded HBAR copies. Any AR-15 that does not have HBAR stamped on the barrel, in my mind must have a barrel profile similar to the Colt Sporter HBAR or risk being considered a banned weapon. Just because a manufacture or someone at MSP at any given moment says a certain weapon is an HBAR does not make it so. Now if the manufacture marks the barrel HBAR or "heavy barrel", then sure even if it has a different profile than a Colt Sporter HBAR, the burden then falls to the manufacture, not the FFL or the owner of the rifle. Likewise the same holds true if MSP put it in writing that a certain AR-15 were an HBAR, which of course will never happen. But it all comes down to what does MSP want to enforce, and what the AG of Maryland tells them to enforce. My fear is, the libs in the legislature one day deciding to ban HBARs too. So everyone please tread lightly with this HBAR exception. Thank you for pointing me to the introduction forum, my apologizes for not going there first. Glad to be here!
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