Why would anyone want to buy an “off-list” / “non-Kasler” AR or AK receiver?
California legislators cannot kill off the immense legitimate interest in these types of firearms; alternate halfway solutions that are California legal and DOJ-sanctioned are now being marketed. Receivers such as Shoeless Ventures’ FAB10, for example, have a closed magazine well and use a 10-round internal magazine. This AR-derived receiver requires the rifle to be scissored open and loaded with a stripper clip. A conceptually similar California Vulcan AR-derived receiver has a 10-round magazine permanently affixed; it is also loaded via stripper clips when the action is broken open. Bushmaster is also offering a closed-magazine-well version of its Carbon-15 model. (Note, though, that a bare open-magwell version of the Bushmaster Carbon 15 receiver is not a listed lower receiver.) A CA vendor has received permission from CA DOJ to weld up Bushmaster and Colt lower receivers’ magazine wells; while actually “named” as banned weapons, these latter guns/receivers are regarded as so substa
