SKS Carbines > 922r Compliance
Replacement bayonet legality
echo83:
If this is the wrong section of the site, please move...
I'm in the US, and I found a company in Canada that has some pretty affordable blade bayonets for sale, and I'm considering purchasing one to replace the spike bayonet on my SKS. (It was imported and sold to me with a spike bayonet attached from Classic Firearms.)
Purchasing and installing a bayonet from this company is legal, right?
echo1:
If they ship it, should be no problem. If they're cheap ($30), order 2 and I'll take one. PAX
running-man:
Absolutely zero issues from a 922(r) standpoint. You are replacing an original foreign part with an equivalent foreign part. You are in no way 'assembling' a firearm from parts (domestic or foreign).
You also are keeping the firearm as C&R. A simple bayonet swap from the incorrect field replacement done in Albania to the correct bayonet when it came off the line in China ones not change this status. You could also remove the bayonet completely if you wanted for ease of shooting and not change the C&R status.
Importation is possibly where things get a bit hairy. Since this is not a firearm or restricted part, you are ok from a BATF standpoint. Customs is a different story. The part may or may not be covered under ITAR. The lists that are out there are ambiguous and fully open to different interpretations. The state dept. can and will drop the hammer at their whim. A single, non-restricted part like this is probably not something that will ever be looked at though. As the parts are coming from Canada and should go through US customs, theoretically they could be seized or returned to the sender. If you are ok with this possibility, I would say go for it. If any portion of this makes you in the least bit uncomfortable, find a different source.
Good luck! thumb1
echo83:
Thanks for the clarification so far, glad to hear that I'm good with 922r.
This company will ship to the US, so I'm good there, too. The ITAR concern is interesting, though.
Worst case scenario, customs returns the package to Canada, and I get a refund? Or is there further trouble?
Larry D.:
Ask the company selling them, and do it by email so that you have a record.
And....if they're priced right, buy 10 of them to recoup your money by selling them either to members here, or to the general populace on eBay.
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