legal loophole famas?

is there any legal way to buy a famas that isn't buying one of the like 100 imported before the ban? there HAS to be a loophole, right? especially since they're still made and sold in France?
what if i get a French friend to buy one for me, disassemble everything, and ship me all the parts except the reciever, then get someone here to make one and build it with a form 1? it can't be that easy right? or we'd see a ton of overpriced famas parts kits on the market...
i just want a famas so bad guys....

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    With as much polymer as that thing has I am shocked that nobody has made a kit for it yet

    t. FAMAS lover

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    African arm smugglers. Go to a former french colony, Im sure someone has one you can buy. Don't get kidnapped and beheaded.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Best you're ever gonna do is get a parts kit. They stopped manufacturing the Famas years ago.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    buy the manufacturing license?

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can find semi-auto FAMAS for about 5-7k €, full auto ones are a bit cheaper if you can find one. You might be able to convince an European owner to export and ship the parts you need but it's going to cost you a lot

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      NTA, is there a common auction site or forum to message people?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >is there a common auction site or forum to message people?
        Covering the 30odd languages and legal situations present? I highly doubt it. Besides, they’d only be able to send you the small parts and receiver.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For it to be properly legal you’re still going to need enough domestic parts to comply with 922(r) which is going to be difficult for a one-off. I also think that making the receiver is going to be much more difficult and expensive than you anticipate.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The FAMAS isn't produced anymore here in France, and the only ones available on our civilian market here are .222 Remington semi-auto only versions.
    Also, disassembling a FAMAS in France and sending you the parts apart from the receiver is not trivial. It's the pressure-bearing parts that are regulated here, the barrel for example, and exporting it from France is going to be a lot of trouble.
    I have no other information, sorry and good luck.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It's the pressure-bearing parts that are regulated here
      I was surprised to learn that gas blocks are regulated in some countries. I was looking for a R5/LM5 block once and it turns out they're a serial numbered part in SA.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >especially since they're still made and sold in France
    Anon, MAS closed in 2002

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >especially since they're still made and sold in France?
    Anon, I...

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >there HAS to be a loophole, right? especially since they're still made and sold in France?
    Anon you're a time traveller from 1992 or something?
    The MAS closed its doors in 1997. The last of the 20 000 or so Famas G2 built got out in 94 or 95. The whole factory was razed or repurposed in 2001.
    If you want a full auto G2 there are very few countries which bought some, in very small numbers. good luck to get one. Although some italian put his hands on one 15 years ago, never managed to discover how

    If you want a semi auto G2 there were a few in France years ago, a grand total of 9 rifles, which were military G2 that had been repurposed with a semi auto only selector by military personnels then got in the civilian market. Except this modification is now illegal in France, and last year even the converted semi auto guns from any military model were banned. Can't have a semi auto FAL anymore that hasn't been built as one.
    A few videos of these unobtainium semi auto Famas G2

    Notice the twisted bipod coming from a Famas Félin/Valorisé

    Notice the lack of a selector under the stock
    And no it's not easy to convert a full auto Famas from whatever model into a semi auto one or vice versa, the sears are different for this very purpose as Ian demonstrated:

    I have no idea how anybody could have kept any of these semi auto G2, except maybe by having an armorer tinker heavily with parts from a MAS.222 or MAS.223, as receivers are not regulated the same way in France. No more information.
    Your best bet would be to buy a deactivated one (again, good luck finding one) and send it to the US as part kits, then magically use these to rebuild a receiver, bolt, and everything from scratch. It's gonna be expensive and require a very good gunsmith.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Getting an F1 it may actually be easier, you may still stumble across some of them in the balkans, a tiny bit in the middle east, maybe a few in west Africa. And of course the 80 or so that got exported to the US too.

      You can find semi-auto FAMAS for about 5-7k €, full auto ones are a bit cheaper if you can find one. You might be able to convince an European owner to export and ship the parts you need but it's going to cost you a lot

      >You can find semi-auto FAMAS for about 5-7k €
      In Europe. Good luck to export them to the US.
      A full auto one is obligatorily a stolen weapon or one that got captured. Again good luck making this re-legalized first, then sent to the US.
      A purpose-built semi-auto only slightly different MAS.223 goes for around 30k dollars in the US these days, only 300 exported. In Europe the 1000 or so MAS.222, original french civilian semi-auto version of the gun, can still be found around especially in Switzerland, and go for far cheaper.

      The FAMAS isn't produced anymore here in France, and the only ones available on our civilian market here are .222 Remington semi-auto only versions.
      Also, disassembling a FAMAS in France and sending you the parts apart from the receiver is not trivial. It's the pressure-bearing parts that are regulated here, the barrel for example, and exporting it from France is going to be a lot of trouble.
      I have no other information, sorry and good luck.

      La seule réponse intelligente du topic.

      >especially since they're still made and sold in France
      Anon, MAS closed in 2002

      1997, in 2002 the whole factory had been repurposed.
      >https://www.citedudesign.com/fr/esadse
      Today it's the art&design superior school of Saint Etienne.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Again good luck making this re-legalized first, then sent to the US.
        Maritime private import. Gun control isn’t really global and it’s not like the customs are going to contact france to check serial numbers. Won’t really get you anywhere with the american import tho.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh wow great so I can order child sex slaves in a container and a pallet of fentanyl this way too? Maybe a jug of enriched uranium to happily replace tannerite with once I'm done crafting a uranium bullet too?
          Please.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What if we had famas owners submit various measurements of their guns and used those numbers to make a new technical data package? With a large enough sample size we should be able to get a rough idea of what the dimensions are supposed to be.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >especially since they're still made and sold in France?
    lol
    lmao

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ask an importer and not morons on /k/

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