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November 12, 2010, 12:56 PM | #26 |
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Rumor has it that the ruling has been rescinded.
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November 12, 2010, 01:04 PM | #27 | |
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If the rumor is true about the ruling being rescinded, it would seem to show even more strongly that they pulled their heads out of their asses and realized it wasn't a cut and dried case but, rather, an absurd ruling made by someone trying to sink the bureau's claws in deeper.
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November 12, 2010, 02:15 PM | #28 |
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Tin foil hat anyone?
You can't make a replica of an AR lower, fully functioning, and get around the law by calling it a toy. If they rescinded the ruling, it was because they realized they cant ban something based on form, but on function. Which is why I said: cosmetics have nothing to do with it... Oh, and making your own AR lower will not get you in trouble. If you try and sell it for profit, you will. I suspect that also goes for a "house hold items" AR lower... But I'm no lawyer...
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Seems like a mighty fine line as to how much modification is allowed to either make it a firearm or not.
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November 12, 2010, 07:14 PM | #30 |
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Sounds to me like they took some aluminum replicas, drilled them out to AR-15 specs and called them AR-15s...
WELL OF COURSE! Anyone can drill out aluminum to make an AR-15 reciever, given the right tools and time... |
November 13, 2010, 02:15 AM | #31 |
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You can make a working AR lower out of a block of wood or piece of plastic. So yeah, just about anything. Are we really going to classify a block of wood as a gun? I don't think so. However converting an airsoft is a lot easier.
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November 13, 2010, 01:36 PM | #32 |
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True, but the requirements to use power tools and get the engineering details correct makes it rather more than most people will go through.
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November 13, 2010, 03:48 PM | #33 |
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The ATF says stoopid things at about the same rate as my 17 year old.
That said, someone making an AR receiver and labeling it anything but a firearm was just living in a different world than we're currently in. Larry
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November 14, 2010, 03:37 PM | #35 |
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makes perfect sense to me. if someone pulls a gun on you, will you stop to think "maybe its an airsoft..."? i wont. if it turns out to be a "toy" and the person survives then they should thank their lucky stars, if not, well...
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The BATFE seems to have forgotten that they have determined that it is not illegal to manufacture your own firearm. If it's for personal use (excluding machine guns), no manufacturer's license is required. And they have ruled that if the owner performs just 20 percent of the machining, it qualifies as home'built. I can't imagine that converting one of these airsofts to work as an actual firearm is any different than an 80 percent receiver. |
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November 14, 2010, 07:12 PM | #37 | |
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I'm not sure that's relevant to the issue at hand. If your trigger finger is that itchy, you'd just as soon shoot someone with a black squirt gun or any number of other things that you could mistake for a real firearm/threat. I can't imagine that, barring even deeper rectal-cranial inversion by the ATF, squirt guns or other similarly shaped items could ever legally be considered firearms. Regardless, this thread isn't about justifying shooting someone because they're holding _______ (insert object here). It's about whether or not machining a given arbitrary object to allow it to function in conjunction with existing firearms parts makes that object a firearm.
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Logic says to me that if you take an object, (airsoft part, block of wood, lump of metal, whatever) and permanently modifiy it (machine it, drill holes, etc.,) and combine it with firearms parts and they function together, then it is a firearm.
And if you don't, it isn't. But then, logic and govt angencies don't always take the same path.
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44 AMP, I'm inclined to agree with that logic, but I don't think life (and the law in this case) is that black and white.
If you start with a block of aluminum, and finish with a fully functioning AR lower, at what point does it become a firearm and can't be sold for profit? At the finished product? Logic might tell us so, but what about the step right before its finished, where all you have to do is machine one single hole? What if that hole only needs to be punched out with a punch and hammer? Wouldn't you think there is some point in the middle where that block of aluminum becomes so much like an AR lower that it should be treated as such? Or is it still the absolute final product that would be considered a lower?
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From a legal standpoint, I think it should be at the point were no machining/drilling is required to make it a functional reciever. That seems like a reasonable standard to me.
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