[Rick Lee]

I just had to get this, as I'm keeping another one for a Pelicanite who's taking it back soon. So I wanted my own. I was shopping for a SIG 556, but my neighbor just showed me his and I'm not convinced they're worth almost double the price. Now, I have heard that there's a loophole in class III regs that allows people to buy full auto SIG 552 receivers and put them on the civilian semi-auto 556's. That's a fraction of the cost of the pre-86 class III guns. So if this turns out to be true and the BATF doesn't come after folks for doing it, then I'll do it in the near future. Getting a full auto SIG 552/556 for about $3500 would be the cheapest class III option in the US. But then .223 is crazy expensive right now, so semi-auto more affordable for me at the moment.