Nice summary RAE - not much to add to that!
And yep - there are a lot of things you can do that aren't neccessarily legal. At the introduction of the brass cartridge a lot of gunsmiths reconfigured or manufactured BP revolver cylinders to take the new invention. Today I think that action would run afoul of the laws governing the manufacture of a new firearm - just cause you can do it, doesn't make it legal...
Maybe the Cylinder should have been the registered, serial numbered part on a revolver instead of the frame? (Bite my tongue!)
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What part of "... shall not be infringed..." don't you understand?
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