{"id":3756,"date":"2018-06-15T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/olympic-oa96-pistol-a-loophole-in-the-assault-weapons-ban\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:05:43","slug":"olympic-oa96-pistol-a-loophole-in-the-assault-weapons-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/olympic-oa96-pistol-a-loophole-in-the-assault-weapons-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic OA96 Pistol: A Loophole in the Assault Weapons Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/apd6NXWgBZk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/olympic-oa96-pistol-a-loophole-in-the-assault-weapons-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/olympic-oa96-pistol-a-loophole-in-the-assault-weapons-ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Olympic Arms introduced an AR-15 with a side folding stock, as well as a stockless &#8211; and buffer-tube-less &#8211; pistol version. They did this by relocating the recoil spring of the AR to a tube running above the barrel and receiver. It was a clever modification (although the execution left something to be desired), but it came at a very unfortunate time. The very next year, in 1994, the US Assault Weapons Ban was enacted and Olympic\u2019s pistols were prohibited from production. <\/p>\n<p>However, Olympic recognized that the definition of \u201cassault pistol\u201d was based first on a semiautomatic handgun with a detachable magazine. If the magazine were not detachable, the gun was not an \u201cassault pistol\u201d, regardless of any other features it might have. So they introduced the OA-96 in 1996, with a 30-round fixed magazine, as well as a barrel shroud, pistol grip, and flash suppressor. In order to reload it, they incorporated a button to easy hinge the upper receiver open, allowing access to the magazine. <\/p>\n<p>This was a slick workaround, but of course what they and their customers really wanted was a detachable magazine. Olympic went immediately to work on that, and introduced the OA-98 two years later\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/olympic-oa96-pistol-a-loophole-in-the-assault-weapons-ban http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons In 1993, Olympic Arms introduced an AR-15 with a side folding stock, as well as a stockless &#8211; and buffer-tube-less &#8211; pistol version. They did this by relocating the recoil spring of the AR to a tube running above the barrel and receiver. It was a clever modification&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/olympic-oa96-pistol-a-loophole-in-the-assault-weapons-ban\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olympic OA96 Pistol: A Loophole in the Assault Weapons Ban<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14280,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/14280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}