The AR-15 does not lend itself to stock-less use, because its basic design places the recoil spring in the length of the stock, and requires that space for the bolt carrier to travel in. Olympic Arms, however, developed a way to modify the basic AR-15 design to allow for a pistol version that did not require a rear buffer tube (it was also made into a carbine with a folding stock). This was the OA-93, and it was unluckily introduced just before the implementation of the 1994 assault weapons ban in the US.
With that law in place, the OA-93 met the legal definition of “assault pistol”, and Olympic wanted to find a way to avoid that designation, so they could continue to sell the gun. Their first solution was to replace its ability to use normal AR magazines with a permanently mounted 10-round magazine – but this was a commercial flop. Looking for a better solution, they developed the OA-98. This version of the gun omitted the barrel shroud and thread muzzle, thus removing two of the “assault pistol” elements. A third and final element was avoided by reducing the weigh of the gun from 71 to 48 ounces (from 2kg to 1.36kg). This was done through drastic skeletonization of several components, and removal of all excess features – and the result was a pistol which indeed avoided the legal definition of “assault pistol.”
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Where can I get a Spring guide rod for my OA98?
So this would be NJ legal?
Instead of skeletonizing… titanium?
List of evil .
I sure am glad I don't have an assault rifle. I am thankful fir my AR-15 though
This firearm complies with the AWB yet would be just as effective in a crime. That's what happens when people who don't know shit about guns try to legislate them.
So it's just a legal workaround for those who want to retrofit it to a functional AR-15 in particularly bad case of communist robot zombies from outer space.
So retarded. Thank God the AWB shad a sunset year!!!!!
What if they started making these again, but…sturdy
So the heavier the gun the more likely it will be used in an unlawful manner?
A scaled down bolter for the genetically-inferior humans
The barrel shroud-you mean the shoulder thing that goes up?
hey man, thanks for giving me anxiety at 11pm, by hammering what looks like a 5.56 shell into the release pin.
I Love the way you do the videos in order many props for organizing common sense
AR = Assault Rifle
3:27 😑🤦♂️😑🤦♂️ I like how these dumbass politicians and lawmakers regularly Outlaw things that don't even exist in the firearm world! I mean they literally have no idea what you're talking about but yet they're still allowed to make laws about things that they are completely ignorant on😑🤦♂️😑🤦♂️😑🤦♂️WTF?!🤬🤬🤬🚫
My ad was a church shooting awareness lol
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Question: under the 1994 assault weapons ban, did they address belt-fed semi-auto firearms? IE if I welded a box of ammunition to an FN 249S does that classify it as a non-detachable magazine?
And now about half of our politicians want to repeat the same crappy mistakes of the '90's. American arms manufacturers shouldn't have to perform gymnastics to produce weapons that law-abiding American citizens want, and have the right to own.
A "barrel extender" is a real thing. There are surplus military and police barrels that do not meet the minimum length for non-NFA firearms. A permanently installed barrel extender takes them out of this category and gets them off of form 4.
it looks like something out of star wars
Yet again, impractical. Why would anybody want one of these?
Very cool firearm, and kudo's to Olympic Arms for going to the trouble to let honest citizens have access to a fun looking pistol to take to the range (I'm Aussie btw, and we have backwards gun laws here).
I use to have one of this and they jam all the time
They should have banned weapons that had an unreasonable rate of sustained fire for several seconds if they really wanted to eliminate assault style weapons. Then we would never have gotten something as cool as this and yet so inconvenient as this as well.
I like this one. It looks mad.
The infinity pistol Borderlands 2
I just love strange unusual firearms…🤔
I remember seeing this in Madness Combat anims
It's funny cause they are now all but out of business now
I don't know about you guys, but I think that gun came out of a spawn comic. Am I right…or wrong? What do you think?
That's a DL-44 straight outta mos eisley cantina is what that is.
Law makers: these rules mean no assault pistols!
AO: so if a weapon doesn't fall under 4 of these 5 rules it's good ?
LM: yes for a better america.
AO: hold my mag.
Seriously this gun is just weird all around and I want 2 of them.