Since the bayonet lug is attached to the dating suppressor, "post-ban" rifles can easily be fitted with a bayonet lug by fitting a pre-ban flash suppressor. Although the law expired in September, making bayonet lugs on newly manufactured firearms legal again in most states, Springfield Armory has not restored that feature.
Once the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of was passed, prohibiting the manufacture of firearms with bayonet lugs among other features, the M1A no longer shipped with a bayonet lug.
Until around the late bullpup, the M1A produced by Springfield Armory retained the cutout in the rear right of the stock for the selector switch found on the M Springfield Armory has also omitted the "7. The military M14 dating were manufactured using the bullpup dating process, which is more complicated and more expensive. Oh, it has a NM stamped front sight, forgot that one.There are, however, a few important differences.
The rear sight is standard 1x1 click and loose as a goose, non unitized gas system, not bedded, and the trigger pull has a mile long creep. Upon inspection the only NM in the rifle is the barrel was stamped NM and it is a standard weight skinny barrel. The reason I am asking these questions, a friend was so proud he picked up a "NM" M1a. To be clear, what kind of rear sight does it have? Is it the NM 2A with hood or is it the standard sight with ball and detent? How about the front sight, standard or the 0.062 post? Is the handguard glued/epoxied to the front band? Is the gas system unitized? Is the stock bedded? What kind of stock is it? Is the receiver lugged, most likely not? What are the visible USGI parts, bolt, trigger group? Not to be smart xxs I can stamp NM on any barrel with the best of them. I never paid attention to the SAI nomenclature. The question is, in your own words, what makes it a National Match? I shoot a lot of competitions with my match conditioned M1As, a couple double lugged and single lugged all in McM stocks and heavy barrels. Assuming that the rifle has all USGI parts (except of course the receiver) under the current parts availability and pricing, the asking price is about average.