Thread: From E-Cat to A-Cat?

Some good points raised.

Shooting in the 3 gun matches my club runs, does make a mockery of the E cat rules, with A cat shotgun tubes holding 12 rounds etc. Everyone has a 30rnd AR mag.... The club is now looking from the outside in and are heading along the lines of enforcing the E Cat rules and the illegal A cat firearms.

My question now is, how do we get our A cat firearms to be E cat registered? I have asked and get told 'its not a simple process'. Can someone enlighten me?

Is it as simple as paying large sums to purchase a registered E cat firearm to continue shooting 3 gun? not many will be able to do this, what future is there for this sport if so?

What difference does it make if there are more MSSA's registered on the system? The person registering the firearm will still need to be E endorsed and meet the E cat requirments??

My 2 cents

Originally Posted by Baz

Some good points raised.

Shooting in the 3 gun matches my club runs, does make a mockery of the E cat rules, with A cat shotgun tubes holding 12 rounds etc. Everyone has a 30rnd AR mag.... The club is now looking from the outside in and are heading along the lines of enforcing the E Cat rules and the illegal A cat firearms.

My question now is, how do we get our A cat firearms to be E cat registered? I have asked and get told 'its not a simple process'. Can someone enlighten me?Is it as simple as paying large sums to purchase a registered E cat firearm to continue shooting 3 gun? not many will be able to do this, what future is there for this sport if so?

What difference does it make if there are more MSSA's registered on the system? The person registering the firearm will still need to be E endorsed and meet the E cat requirments??

My 2 cents

Just wait till June. Then your A-Cat AR will be an E-Cat!

Originally Posted by Baz

My question now is, how do we get our A cat firearms to be E cat registered? I have asked and get told 'its not a simple process'. Can someone enlighten me?

Is it as simple as paying large sums to purchase a registered E cat firearm to continue shooting 3 gun? not many will be able to do this, what future is there for this sport if so?

I have never done this so take what i say next with a grain of salt (so to speak).
I have seen pest control guys registering and then converting A-Cat shotguns to E-Cat. The owner obviously needs the E endoirsement and then needs to explain to the AO the reason for the change. For the guys i was talking to they were part of a DoC hunt team and culling goats from the helicopter. It was simple enough to demonstrate that to the local AO.

For guys shooting 3gun i would have thought the explaination to the AO would be pretty straight forward. Like the guys who compete in service rifle competitions. To be really competitive in service class you need an E cat semiauto. This is sufficient reason for them to be given a permit to procure (forgetting the stupid hand in thing) and therefore should be sufficient reason to convert an A-Cat to E-Cat.