Status of PMFs in PA?

**My Toy** · January 8th, 2023, 01:21 PM

I was curious about the status of Personal Manufactured Firearms in PA. Is it legal to purchase 80% lower receivers without a serial number in PA as well as own a compete Personal Mfg. Firearm in PA that does not have a serial number? I am asking with respect to PA law not Federal (ATF) rulings (overreach).
Thanks.

**jthrelf** · January 8th, 2023, 05:34 PM

Pennsylvania law does not prohibit making your own firearm or possessing an otherwise legally owned firearm if it doesn't have a S/N.

**My Toy** · January 9th, 2023, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by jthrelf

Pennsylvania law does not prohibit making your own firearm or possessing an otherwise legally owned firearm if it doesn't have a S/N.

Thank you for the information.

**Bang** · January 9th, 2023, 03:12 PM

Many years ago (1955) I visited an outdoor range somewhere here in PA. A man was shooting a handgun that was very obviously something special. It was on the order of a 1911's basic design. When he was finished shooting, I approached, admired the gun, and inquired what make it was. He responded that he owned a machine shop and that he had made it. I instinctively questioned that being legal, and he explained there was no law prohibiting a citizen making a gun for himself.

There was a lot of street lawyering going on back then, such as the belief that it was illegal to have a smooth-bore rifle or handgun because it defeated forensic examination of a recovered projectile.