AR-15 Barrel Swapping Question

sbmike said:

Not being one who "builds" ARs, I am not familiar with what parts of an AR are legal to sell and which ones are not. My question is about swapping barrels between two store-bought ARs (pre 10/1/13) so I can try to sell one of them legally. I AM NOT trying to circumvent any Maryland laws.

I have a Bushmaster HBar that is only illegal because it has the evil name "Bushmaster" on it. Can I take that HBar barrel and swap it with a standard barrel off of another AR I own that does not have that evil name on it, then legally sell the HBar AR in Maryland?

Does anyone have any first hand experience with something like this?

Thanks.

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outrider58 said:

You have a lot of questions here and I'm no expert. Taking the bbl. off the B.Master, the lower is still marked Bush master, right? And you want to sell it with a different barrel?
The other pre-10/13 gun I think you can put any bbl. on it you want as long as it's 16'' or over.
Selling the B.Master legally? I don't know but, maybe not in Merryland if it is a banned item. It's not 'illegal' for you to own. Just illegal for another Md'er to buy...I think.
Hope I didn't cause more confusion for someone else to have to straighten out.

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sbmike said:

I'm not trying to sell the Bushmaster. What I would like to do is take the HBar barrel that is on the Bushmaster and put it on another non-Bushmaster AR and sell the non-Bushmaster with the Hbar on it since I think it would then be legal, according to MD's bizarre law. I may not have explained it too clearly in my original post. But it appears from the other response that what I want to do is a no-no anyway so this may be a moot issue.

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