First ATF ruling of 2015.....its a doozie!

[Bendersquint]

Here it is guys, applies to everyone here....ATF is tightening the ropes again on who can make them/work on them/finish homemade firearms and it applies to NFA items as well.....

Anyone that helps finish a homemade firearm is now considered IN THE BUSINESS if you are using machines that they own and under their domain.

This would also apply to making Form1 NFA items etc.....that just severely limited WHO can help you on your can......makes it truly a home made item.

No more going to a local machine shop or YOUR machine shop(employer) and assisting in finishing it.....now they have to be licensee's!

http://www.atf.gov/sites/default/files/ ... ithing.pdf

"Held further,a business (including an association or society) may not avoid the manufacturing license, marking, and recordkeeping requirements of the GCA by allowing persons to perform manufacturing processes on blanks or incomplete firearms (including frames or receivers) using machinery, tools, or equipment under its dominion and control where that business controls access to, and use of, such machinery, tools, or equipment."

This is BAD!

[Bt Doctur]

Guess i just have to leave the key to the shop and go on vacation ,will that work for you????
Tell me thats not going to drive the black market a bit.

[dsteuber]

I wonder if small, hobby harbor freight mini mills and lathes can be used to make larger lathes and mills.

[doubloon]

Much doublespeak.

Besides the part about borrowing equipment from machine shops this loosely worded document with poor definitions appears to be positioned with the potential to make any person who makes any part of any firearm for any reason a "manufacturer".

[Sigproshooter]

We are from the the gubbermint and we r hear to help.