FAL-Ordinance
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I'm going to clarify this conundrum of opinions.
Your barrel will need to be stamped HBAR. When the lower is joined to the upper you then have a rifle.
When produced the Colt HBar was stamped on both the receiver and the barrel.
Having a non HBar upper is not illegal....you just cannot have it as a weapon completed.
Any nit with a wit can Spy a Heavy Barrel versus a non-HBar barrel profile.
To the post above on Bear Creek Arsenal products, they don't make products with consistancy and customer service was not up to par, so we passed on them when they went from industry producers to direct distribution.
So on this point - if someone did own a rifle that didn't meet the HBAR specs, they may want to consider detaching upper from lower when traveling? Would that be legally kosher?