[grady]

Len Savage seems to think this is true also. Perhaps ATF was right on this particular model?

[WOBBLY BOB]

LOL.

and Obama can be converted to Southern Baptist.

[Lurker]

To make the airsoft receiver function just like an AR-15’s, Gonnuscio said, “All you have to do is drill one hole.”

Allow me to be the first to call BS.

You might, and I do stress might, be able to get it to fire a single round, once. But it would be a plastic hand grenade.

[doodad]

I would like to see this demonstrated live. I call pure BS.

[OneWingedShark]

I say: show me.
I want to see them perform the operation and put multiple live rounds through it... while properly aiming.

[lefty-lie-spy]

This same story caused a ruckus in Japan about 15 years ago. Old news.

[Red Badger]

Thanks for the info Fox, I’ll get right on it..........Perhaps I’ll get my obnoxious neighbor to test it for me...............

[humblegunner]

Yeah.
I see a business opportunity here for producing $20.00 ARs.

Of course, all the customers would get blown up but what the hell.

[Robe]

[MindBender26]

Let him convert one, load it with standard milspec ball ammunition.... and he an pull the trigger... will I watch and roll tape from a safe distance.

What he is probably trying to say is that the AR-15 upper receiver, which is not serial numbered or regulated, can be attached to the air soft lower receiver.

[ßuddaßudd]

Isn’t the airsoft pellet smaller than the 5.56mm bullet?
I’m not familiar with airsoft, yet...

[albie]

And rubber bands can be converted into granade launchers! Keep them away from the chillin’!

[RC one]

I want to see Leo Gonnuscio perform this surprisingly simple conversion and then fire the weapon with a standard NATO ball round while maintaining a good cheek weld to the rifle.

[dfwgator]

“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”

[kik5150]

Any attempt to convert it will result in a lethal weapon...to the one pulling the trigger.

[Joe Brower]

I googled 'Leo Gonnuscio' and found this. Kind Mountain Gun Works? Never heard of it.

If what this guy is describing is just taking the lower receiver, or stripped lower, as FOX shows in the article, and substitutes all the other parts (something the AR-pattern allows), then this may be doable, but the phrasing is disingenuous.

But if so, I can see why the ATF would be having kittens, since that's also the serialized part that their own regs considers the "firearm".

[mrmeyer]

They should put up or shutup. Prove it with evidence or just go away.

[chuckles]

A piece of galvanized pipe with a cap drilled to receive a nail and a rubberband driving the nail will get at least one 12 gauge slug down range. Cost.....about $10 depending on how fancy you want to make it.

[Yo-Yo]

To make the airsoft receiver function just like an AR-15’s, Gonnuscio said, “All you have to do is drill one hole.”

And once that's out of the way, the rest is even easier. The AR-15 receiver is the only part of the semi-automatic rifle that is given a serial number, and is the only part that is regulated. All the remaining parts of the real thing can be purchased by anyone – any kid, criminal or terrorist.

The cost of buying the Taiwan-made airsoft gun and all the parts needed to convert it to an AR-15 comes to roughly $1,100 -- more than the cost of some real AR-15s. But someone who can’t clear a background check or has been refused a gun for any other reason could use this method to make his own lethal weapon, Gonnuscio said.

That could be a legitimate beef.

[MHGinTN]

There are several toy guns which can have one or another .22lr receiver and barrel dropped into them with only a little dremel work. There are youtube examples of toy bullpups, etc. being ‘adapted’ to shoot .22lr. Upping the caliber is not all that difficult ...

[Steamburg]

Clearly bad information based on gross ignorance on the stress points, tolerances and operation of the internal parts of the AR-15 lower receiver. I can’t wait to see the YouTube tests.