What is this cut inside my Galil?

[Pamwe Chete]

 

[Mr Folgers]

Uhhhhh its in a close enough spot to where the auto-sear cut would be on a machine gun, but it is too short and not nearly long enough? I think your receiver might be fractured there.

Is this a Galil or Golani/copy? I wouldn't shoot it if this is happening

 

[jaredrlewman]

Deff looks like a broken chunk from the rail. A photo from the side angle would help.

 

[adipose]

You could get the receiver magna-fluxed (X-rayed); which would show any weakness or non-visible cracks in it.

Have you noticed this before the build; when you bought the receiver? or did you just notice it now after test firing it?

 

[Pamwe Chete]

Uhhhhh its in a close enough spot to where the auto-sear cut would be on a machine gun, but it is too short and not nearly long enough? I think your receiver might be fractured there.

Is this a Galil or Golani/copy? I wouldn't shoot it if this is happening

This is an IMI sporter receiver. 100% IMI. Ill get some photos when my phone charges but I am looking inside and it does not look a Fracture.The cut is too uniform and looks factory.

Ill get a couple of photos close up once the camera is charged...I highly doubt it's an issue with the receiver.

A friend of mine noticed it and was looking along the mag well and said it looks like a starter cut for the auto sear relief.

 

[Pamwe Chete]

The cut is too uniform for it to be a crack or fracture. It looks like it was done on purpose.

 

[AresShrike]

It looks to be exactly in the spot where a full auto cut would be made, for a conversion. It just hasn't been finished.
No fracture.
Intentional.
Personally, it'd make me nervous, and I'd get my money back, and buy a CNC-W receiver.

 

[lcastillo]

Whoo-Hoo came from the factory with auto sear cut out! must have been machined at same time with all those full-auto Galil military receivers ~

 

[Pamwe Chete]

It looks to be exactly in the spot where a full auto cut would be made, for a conversion. It just hasn't been finished.
No fracture.
Intentional.
Personally, it'd make me nervous, and I'd get my money back, and buy a CNC-W receiver.

That does not constitute a MG so honestly it's perfectly legal. A friend of mine got a VEPR 545 from the factory with a sear cut on the rail. What constitutes a MG is the 3RD pin. I have looked into this after the initial discovery.

 

[adipose]

You could get the receiver magna-fluxed (X-rayed); which would show any weakness or non-visible cracks in it.

Have you noticed this before the build; when you bought the receiver? or did you just notice it now after test firing it?

Actually this is the starting reference point made by a 4 MM end mill at the factory; while the receiver sits in a jig.

Just make sure there is no burr or roughness affecting the travel of the bolt carriers movement.

If it stays like that; you are OK.

 

[AresShrike]

Thank God it doesn't constitute a machinegun.
I was just making a reference to any possible "intent" claims, that ATF might try, but, it's obviously a factory job, as I just noticed that it's even got the milled out areas done on the inside of the receiver for the auto sear, and they look totally factory done, as that's a very hard thing to machine out well, as that one is.
So there really can't be an "intent" argument, as it's totally factory done.
I wish it was mine!
That's way too cool!!
Never saw anything like it!

 

[N4KVE]

If that were mine, I wouldn't be posting photos of it on the internet. The ATF can do anything they want. We can all speculate that it's OK, but who really knows. To the OP, good luck. GARY

 

[TOOL_MAN]

Lucky dog. That's a keeper

 

[recovering]

If that were mine, I wouldn't be posting photos of it on the internet. The ATF can do anything they want. We can all speculate that it's OK, but who really knows. To the OP, good luck. GARY

Ok, well OP did. And he doesn't have a third pin which is how the ATF defines AK style receivers as machine guns.

Seriously, the paranoia amongst the gun community is out of control. There is no precedent that says this guy is in anyway in the "intent" category.

 

[hagar]

My IMI Sporter has the same cuts.

 

[sniperdoc]

Posting pics is the ONLY way the OP could communicate the area.
If he'd just described it, everyone would be asking for pics.

 

[ddnc]

If that were mine, I wouldn't be posting photos of it on the internet. The ATF can do anything they want. We can all speculate that it's OK, but who really knows. To the OP, good luck. GARY

As totally out of control as this .gov is, this is probably sound advice.

 

[N4KVE]

Ok, well OP did. And he doesn't have a third pin which is how the ATF defines AK style receivers as machine guns.

Seriously, the paranoia amongst the gun community is out of control. There is no precedent that says this guy is in anyway in the "intent" category.

Someone I know recently took some radio equipment from Canada to the USA. Some of it was encryption loaders. Again perfectly legal to go back & forth between the USA, & Canada, although I wouldn't be sending this stuff to the middle east. But because he blabbed about it on the internet before he made the trip, several 3 letter agencies were waiting for him at the Chicago airport on his flight back to Canada. While he wasn't arrested, his AES-256 loader, computer, cell phone, & some 2-way radios were confiscated. Now he'll probably get his stuff back at some point, but these guys can make one's life miserable if they want. He is afraid to say anything on the site where he used to offer his "programming services" & many links to download radio files are now gone. So we all have to assume the gov't reads all of this, & it costs them nothing to make our lives miserable. GARY