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Originally Posted by Webleymkv
The problem is that the ATF would probably go on the assumption that whoever posesses the non-compliant firearm is the builder.
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Unfortunately, I suspect you are correct that the BATFE would take this view, but it won't stand up in court if the law doesn't spell it out. The federal law prohibiting altering serial numbers, for example, specifically states (IIRC) that the person who is found in possession of a firearm with an altered or removed serial number is presumed to be the person who performed the nefarious deed. (Or maybe that's in my state's gun laws?)
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Originally Posted by FrankenMauser
You're either overlooking a key piece of firearm regulation, or unaware of it.
The ATF considers "building" or "assembling" to be any time the firearm is assembled (even if the parts have not changed). According to their interpretation of the definitions, that includes simply field-stripping and reassembling, changing slings, adding scope bases/mounts, etc.
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Do you have a link to the law or regulation where they say that? I've never heard or read this before.