The document reworks and broadens the definition of what parts constitute a regulated firearm receiver. It then says any unfinished part that “may readily be converted” into a receiver must be treated as a receiver and requires sellers to obtain federal licenses, mark the unfinished parts with serial numbers, and perform background checks on buyers.
What concerns me more is the definition of a firearm to include:
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Unlike the prior definitions of *frame or receiver* that were rigidly tied to three specific fire control components (i.e., those necessary for the firearm to initiate or complete the firing sequence), the new regulatory definition is intended to be general enough to encompass changes in technology and parts terminology. With respect to the fire control components housed by the frame or receiver, the definition would include, at a minimum, any housing or holding structure for a hammer, bolt, bolt carrier, breechblock, cylinder, trigger mechanism, firing pin, striker, or slide rails.
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Finally, the definition would make clear to persons who may acquire or possess a part now defined as a *frame or receiver* that is identified with a serial number that they must presume, absent an official determination by ATF or other reliable evidence to the contrary, that the part is a firearm *frame or receiver* without further guidance.
It is my understanding this could include UPPER receivers as well, and NOW require a background check to purchase.
jacksnack wrote:What concerns me more is the definition of a firearm to include:
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Unlike the prior definitions of *frame or receiver* that were rigidly tied to three specific fire control components (i.e., those necessary for the firearm to initiate or complete the firing sequence), the new regulatory definition is intended to be general enough to encompass changes in technology and parts terminology. With respect to the fire control components housed by the frame or receiver, the definition would include, at a minimum, any housing or holding structure for a hammer, bolt, bolt carrier, breechblock, cylinder, trigger mechanism, firing pin, striker, or slide rails.
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Finally, the definition would make clear to persons who may acquire or possess a part now defined as a *frame or receiver* that is identified with a serial number that they must presume, absent an official determination by ATF or other reliable evidence to the contrary, that the part is a firearm *frame or receiver* without further guidance.
It is my understanding this could include UPPER receivers as well, and NOW require a background check to purchase.
Given the following from page 25, presumably, not for current firearms the ATF has already designated the lower receiver as the firearm:
Although the new definition would more broadly define the term “frame or receiver” than the current definition, it is not intended to alter any prior determinations by ATF of what it considers the frame or receiver of a particular split/modular weapon.
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Given the following from page 25, presumably, not for current firearms the ATF has already designated the lower receiver as the firearm:
Yes I did notice your term ''presumably, '' but for consideration of discussion I can and rightly will state ...
Could be more correctly '' Given the following from page 25, presumably, not for current firearms the ATF has already designated the lower receiver as the firearm: FOR NOW until the NEXT round of Regs ''
Because as we know, there WILL be another round...and another....wait, OMG!! TWO FELONS did something, another...on...on....
Acquisitions thus far:
-Slingshot
-Butter knife
-Soda straw and peas
-Sharpened pencil
-Newspaper roll
--water balloon (*diversionary*)
There have been 1 or 2 cases, where ATF's "rulings" about serial numbers on the lower (AR15's) did not jive with the GCA. The Fed's decided to drop the charges for fear of an actual court ruling against them.
Consider that a AR pattern rifle carries the s/n on the lower, just like a pistol frame. Yet on a FAL, or my Sig 556xi , the upper receiver has the s/n.
Yet the AR's & FAL existed in civilian form when the GCA was written. Shows you just how much the author (Sen. Dodd) really cared about what he was doing.
The inconsistent applications now have them in a pickle, and my guess is they still have not complied with the GCA of '68.
Of course, they can't help themselves by trying to screw over the law abiding folks with their "corrections".
We ought to thank the guy who changed the legal definition of machine gun, making all of this drama possible.
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