BlueHeeler
Ultimate Member
Without prejudiced or analysis of other qualification issues, while DC prohibits threads on a pistol barrel, it does not as far as I can tell prohibit them or require them to be absent, welded or obliterated on a rifle barrel if all other qualifications are met.
I am not giving legal advice, everyone should themselves make sure, and certainly you could get in trouble for constructive possession if you had a threaded riffle barrel and a prohibited barrel accessory in constructive possession in DC. But I can't readily find a specific prohibition on presence of usable barrel threads per se on a rifle that is otherwise compliant
Can anyone else see language that would prohibit a proper length rifle and proper length barrel where barrel has locktite thread protector, instead of welded/permanently disables threads as required in some othe rjuristicions?
You are right. Threaded barrel is only prohibited on pistols.
(3A)(A) “Assault weapon” means:
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(V) A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any one of the following:
(aa) A threaded barrel, capable of accepting a flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer;
(bb) A second handgrip;
https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/7-2501.01.html