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[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The plain language of this is horrific.

“The term ‘manufacturing firearms’ shall include assembling a functional firearm"

If you take it apart and put it together, you are manufacturing firearms.

If you make a chunk of metal or plastic that the BATFE says you were going to make into a receiver later, congratulations, you're making ghost guns.

“The term ‘frame or receiver’ ... means a part of a weapon that ...is intended to provide the housing or structure to hold or integrate 1 or more fire control components... includes a... blank, casting, or machined body, that requires modification, including machining, drilling, filing or molding, to be used as part of a functional firearm, and which is designed and intended to be used in the assembly of a functional firearm...