Monday, January 5, 2015

ATF position on equipment use threatens private gun-making

The effect of this ruling will be to close down operations in which persons who are legally entitled to manufacture their own firearms for personal use are permitted by a business to use its equipment, either with instruction or without. Provided such firearms are not intended to be sold or distributed, marking and record-keeping requirements do not apply. By changing the rules, ATF has closed down a means by which people who lack the equipment themselves to finish off a part will be able to exercise their right to build a firearm, a practice many rely on, particularly when completing so-called “80 percent” precursor receivers.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

... and this impacts upon the private non-business ownership of such equipment How?

Or the private use of business equipment?

Gonna be an AFT agent sitting beside every drill press; mill; lathe and CNC machine in the Country?

Paul X said...

Just the ruling class trying to do its usual thing, anything to put roadblocks in the way of RKBA. Don't worry, the pissant rules will all evaporate once the Revolution starts. Even before then, I bet a lot of people will ignore this one. Some rules just cry out to be flouted.

PO'd American said...

Hey, stop the arguing...it's for the children!

MarkinPNW said...

Good thing my fellow RTKBA friend got his own Dremel for Christmas, instead of continuing to borrow mine. And I didn't even know that Santa Claus was going to help him defeat this new regulation even before it went into effect.

Anonymous said...

This is aimed at rubbing businesses like Ares Arms' noses in the dirt for daring to offer dirt-cheap 80% lowers, and a storefront to allow their customers to complete them.

Anonymous said...

“Can a company offer membership, whereby any member is entitled to utilize the company equipment for free, and the member complete his/her/its firearm on the company equipment since the business would not be engage in the business?” he asks."


Well, can one "rent" a cigarette making machine w/o the owner of the machine having a man. license? The ATF answered that by saying NO.

The ATF rule is that once a sliver of metal comes off an 80% then it is now a gun. A business could not take that sliver off w/o a license. Must be taken off by the end user or all the regs must be complied with.

buy a mini-mill for 300 or dremel for 50 bucks or take chances with a 150 buck drill press.

What is the ATF affecting? The improvement of skilled home-made gun manufactures.


This is a ruling that will have unintended consequences.

I make my own guns now and have been for years.

Its a skill all should have. And youtube provides all the expert help needed now.

So go out and start building !

Notso said...

I wonder when they'll decide the jigs will be illegal to sell.