Lower Milling

[esh21167]

Sure, seems a stupid law if you can't use your neighbors tools to make your lower legally. That's all, personal opinion.

Got it. I think all here would agree.

[Gunowner99]

It's just overreach by government, they have a way of doing that.

[Walleye Hunter]

^ So the first paragraph above states an unlicensed entity 'may desire', but the second clarifies that the action of doing so is illegal, or requires a manufacturing license.

The link to the Gunfighter Tactical site states:

It is also illegal for a private individual to complete an 80% in their friend or neighbor’s garage using using the friend’s equipment. Essentially this means the only way to complete an 80% lower is to buy your own equipment (jig, drill press, drill bits, or CNC machine, etc.) and finish it in your own home.


If that is true, all those guys in the milling party thread are dancing with the devil.

Seesh, you're quite the party pooper!

[gghbi]

If I pay a stripper $500 for $200 dance, and then she screws me in my car 20 minutes later without payment, is it considered prostitution?
Asking for a friend...

My point is that if the government wanted to, they could probably make the case.
I'm not a lawyer, just my opinion.

Whatever we are going to do here, we want to be well within the law.
Otherwise we are fools for such a public display inviting potential problems.

I thought that was giving her a tip...

[Walleye Hunter]

I dunno, I'd defer to a legal opinion on that, or at least a group discussion and analysis. I see that 'friend's garage and tools' line to mean a shop, not an individual like myself.

[Berncly]

I thought that was giving her a tip...

I always have trouble getting my loose change into the stripper's g-string.

[esh21167]

Hey, I'm not sure about all that legalese either. I just don't want to see anyone get any unnecessary attention.

[Walleye Hunter]

OK, I read the whole six page ruling and it appears to me that people can make their own and share equipment as long as each individual makes their own and there is no compensation for use of equipment or machinery. What Gunfighter Tactical has there looks like their opinion, which looks erroneous to me.

[esh21167]

The ATF document does repeatedly say 'engaged in the business of,' so I tend to agree. OTOH, wearers of tin foil hats should be sure to not even touch the equipment or material when another is machining/manufacturing or vice-versa.

[Hodgie]

OK, I read the whole six page ruling and it appears to me that people can make their own and share equipment as long as each individual makes their own and there is no compensation for use of equipment or machinery. What Gunfighter Tactical has there looks like their opinion, which looks erroneous to me.

So you mean a gun shop is giving out bad advise?

Say it ain’t so.