RE: Elitist attitude
IMO, it's a bow-plus. I look at it like this: you install the compents to make a AR-15 into a M-16 (semi-auto to full auto), you no longer have just a rifle. You still have the same basic parts as you had when it was a semi-auto, but you have added parts that will no longer keep it in the same category as just another rifle.
Although the appearance, ammunition, range, etc. hasn't changed, you still have to get a different license, you can't use the full auto for hunting, etc. etc. etc. because once you add those certain parts you have put the weapon in a different category.
Chad