Weapon Selected: H & K MR556A1;
Status: Not Banned
Justification: NOT REGULATED BY STATUTE
Date of Status: 08/05/2014
Comments: This firearm was originally determined by the Maryland State Police to be a copy of the Colt AR-15. The determination was based on infomation provided by the manufacturer's website. After confirming additional information provided to the Maryland State Police, it would appear that the following internal components of the H & K MR556A1 are not interchangeable with the Colt AR-15; the bolt carrier group, upper receiver, barrel nut, barrel extension with supporting extractor, gas block, piston rod group, piston with rings therefore the H & K MR556A1 is not a copy.
Apparently. How the hell is that not a copy of an M1A?So I can buy a Polytech M14 but NOT an M1A?
No ****ing way they keep the Polytech on there. We all know the truth - that this is an M1A copy.
Nice to know piston ARs are ready to go, though.
wait, not only does MSP say they are legal to sel, they are now cash and carry. wow.
So if I were to buy a Polytech M14 face to face from an MD resident, I just keep a copy of the screenshot from the MSP site?
Chances are the Chinese never got their hands on an M1A and had to reverse engineer an M14 (from Vietnam?), so the Polytech is not a copy of the M1A.
All the tooling for the M14 ended up in Korea. I'm sure the Chinese got more than just a look at a M1A.
I think the Polytech M14 gives us another choice besides the AR10. And choice is good. For anyone that did not get a a M1A before the ban, this is a great alternative.
So 7.62MM one should be not banned either. They say they derived their design from TRW's GI drawings. It is a copy of an M14, not of an SAI M1A.
http://www.762mmfirearms.com/
Not the ROK, but Taiwan got the tooling and produced it as their Type 57 starting in 1968. But yeah, the Chinese probably got their hands on a rifle or drawings.
Here are some M14's in the ROK. They received rifles only.