Legality codes of custom weapons? Options

[Umbrage]

When building a custom gun, how do I determine the legality code? Does taking a sport rifle frame and then adding burst fire and increasing it's conceal to 6 still make it as legal as a standard rifle? If not, how do I determine just how kosher it is to walk around the neighborhood with it tucked under my longcoat?

[FrostyNSO]

Not in California ;)

[Kiedo]

I've noticed that things that have burst fire of Full Auto you can't get a permit for then, which makes perfect sense. But just as a rule of thumb the more dangerous it is the more illegal it should be. The more recoil comp it has the more illegal also the more concealable weapons should be more illegal too. If you want concrete numbers I can't give those to you with out an example a weapon. I enjoy creating custom weapons, and offer a full line of firearms to my table top runners, and fellow players, provided the GM is cool with them. Here's an example:

The Muchado Equalizer (Assault Rifle)
Damage: 9M
Mode: SA/BF/FA
Concealability: 0
Weight: 10.1
Ammo: 50©/50©
RC: 10
Features:Laser Sight(internal high power R:150), Sound Suppressor(internal), Nickel Finish,
"=izer" down each side of the barrel, Selectable Clips, Foregrip, Gas Vent IV (internal)
Special: range +10%(605), +2TN to indentify use, -1 TN to fire
Cost:6275
Availability: 14/3mo
Street index: 4
Legality: 4-K

the standard legality for an assault rifle from the BBB is 2-G. G is an automatic weapon, while K is a military weapon. I don't know if you're familiar with the number portion, but it's the TN for the cop in question to act on discovering you piece. If you want more realistic legality codes try to put your self in the place of a cop and think how likely would I been to bust a guy carrying this gun. Then depending on the gun, you should tinker with the letter designation appropriately. I went with K because the gun can fire full auto without taking a modifier (ie 10 RC). The number is higher because it sticks out like a sore thumb.

[Austere Emancipa...]

[Slacker]

Emancipator's right. By increasing the number, you actually decreased the likelihood an officer would react to it.

Also, even if you do install the laser sight and sound suppressor internally, they still take up the mount position. So you can't have sound suppressor and gas vents.

How did you get RC of 10 anyways? Foregrip and GV 4 gives you 5 RC. The design rules limit RC at design to only +2 on the assault rifle. You could also use the heavy barrel option for another +1RC, but that still only gives you 8 RC total.

And your weight seems off to boot.

[Umbrage]

If you're building a custom weapon, it would make sense that the numeric portion of the legality code would be higher than average. While your average LEO would recognize a AK-98 on sight, he woundn't know whether your custom rifle is FA or SA or not by looking at it.

Here's the gun that I've designed. Anyone care to suggest a legality code? (It's based on a sport rifle frame). My GM assigned it a "3-H".

[Fresno Bob]

I'd give that thing a 2-F

[Slacker]

3-H? H is for heavy weapons. There is no way that gun can be call a heavy weapon. I'd say 3-G or maybe 2-F.

Out of curiosity, is it supposed to be strictly created by the design rules? If so, how did you get conceal to 6? Base conceal on a sports rifle is 2, then +2 conceal for the barrel reduction gets you conceal 4. The only way to do it would be to use bullpup design. Since you don't mention that and the picture doesn't look bullpup, I didn't think you went with that option.

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[Austere Emancipa...]