If you're interested in 80% firearms, this was the presentation to watch.
Stephen Halbrook gave a great presentation.
He gave good definition of firearm, manufacture, dealer, all of which definitions interrelate to this issue.
ATF position can lead to absurd results defining far too wide a set of manufacturers,for example they held bluing a gun built by another manufacturer would make the bluer a manufacturer and required to have a manufacturer license and all requirements likely including adding a serial number, place and name of manufacture or have to get a variance to do so. On the other hand, cerakoting is not considered manufacturing. Not very clear, is it?
There's no actual legal standard and definition as to what is an 80% receiver. He hasn't seen indictments on unfinished receivers where fire control parts cannot be placed into them and it would be a decent defense to the claim, as it does not fit the definition of a receiver. No trial on that issue to date, so no law is really set on it, partly because its very easy to get a manufacturer's license to avoid the entire problem.
He notes not a single person has ever been charged with the 1984 undetectable gun law, and that law would cover 3D printed guns.
He noted you can do a Form 10 to donate unregistered Class 3 items if found in someone's estate for example, to a state museum without having to identify the transferor, which would be a good way to preserve items found that were not registered in time before the NFA registry closed for machineguns.
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"He notes not a single person has ever been charged with the 1984 undetectable gun law, and that law would cover 3D printed guns."
I don't follow this area, but I recall reading that the plans for the "Liberator" include a place to put a piece of steel, with instructions as to how to do it so it passes that 1984 law.
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