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Entreprise Type STG58c FAL Rifle |
In the first part of this article, I am going to familiarize you with the two sets of laws that govern how you must go about assembling a FAL
and what you will want to do to keep on the safe side of the law. In part two, I will give you some particulars on assembly and show how I put together a great-shooting version of an Austrian STG-58 using a Metric FAL Kit and an Entr~prise Arms Receiver.
1989 Import Ban
In 1989, in retaliation for the NRA's denouncement of then President George Bush's poor voting record on firearms issues, President Bush signed an Executive Order halting the importation of semi-automatic rifles that could not meet certain "sporting" criteria into the U.S.
That ban was later made into law on November 30, 1990 and subsequently amended in 1993. The section is 18 USC Chapter 44, subsection 178.39 and is entitled Assembly of semiautomatic rifles and shotguns. This provision of the law was made to close a supposed loophole that allowed people to assemble a banned rifle or shotgun from parts. The law specifically stated it was illegal to assemble a rifle or shotgun from imported parts unless a certain percentage of parts that were manufactured here in the U.S. were included in the complete assembly.
Because the FN/FAL, along with all of its many variants, was specifically listed in the first Importation Ban, it meant that you could not assemble a FAL from one of the many kits that were then, and now, being legally imported |
unless you used the right number of domestically produced parts. This domestic parts exclusion allowed the continued production of the Springfield Armory SAR4800 and many models of FALs from Entréprise Arms and D.S. Arms, Inc.
The 1989 Importation Ban listed 20 parts that were considered by our government to be essential in the making of a non-sporting rifle and those parts are listed below. An individual that wanted to assemble a banned firearm from a parts kit could not use more than 10 parts that were not produced here in the U.S. and included in this
list.
1) Frames, receivers, receiver castings, forgings, or stampings.
2) Barrels
3) Barrel extensions
4) Mounting blocks
5) Muzzle attachments
6) Bolts
7) Bolt carriers
8) Operating rods
9) Gas pistons
10) Trigger housings
11) Triggers
12) Hammers
13) Sears
14) Disconnectors
15) Buttstocks
16) Pistol grips
17) Forearms, handguards
18) Magazine bodies
19) Magazine followers
20) Magazine floorplates
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