[marktwain]

The ATF is claiming the key question of whether something is a firearm, is how easy it is to make.

[marktwain]

From the open letter, images of what the ATF claims are now "firearms" under the law.

[coloradan]

If it can be “readily converted into a something”, then it certainly isn’t that something right now.

[Tench_Coxe]

Firearms....

[pierrem15]

Judge Welte is an ass. Judge O'Connor is correct: the ATF has no authority to change the statutory definition of a firearm and count incomplete parts that cannot function as a working firearm as a firearm.

He correctly points out that elsewhere, in reference to machine guns, the Congress has clearly identified certain parts as subject to NFA regulation, so Congress knows the difference.

The rule is facially unconstitutional and unlawful.

[Vendome]

Sell an aluminum billet in the shape of a triangle, with a jig and we can cut our own L shaped object...

[drypowder]

This brings to mind the analogues argument of when a human fetus can be called a human being. In this ATF’s way of thinking, it is obvious they want control so they fudge and call unassembled parts a firearm. Using that analogy, does that make a car tire, which is necessary for a car to function properly, a car? Of course it doesn’t. If the courts agree with the ATF on this BS, this country is heading for some very dark times.

[absalom01]

Pursuant to Final Rule 2021R-05F, partially complete, disassembled, or nonfunctional frames or receivers that are sold, distributed, possessed with such items (or made available by the seller or distributor to the same person) may change the analysis, including those distributed as frame or receiver parts kits. 27 CFR 478.12(c). For example, jigs, templates, or instructions can provide the same indexing as if it were placed directly on the unfinished frame or receiver.

 

 This is some of the most outrageous over reach that any agency of the federal government has attempted.

I know it sounds naive, but this administration's willingness to transgress legal restraints that reach back to the founding is shocking.

From misdemeanor defendants languishing in solitary confinement in DC jails, to the FBI ignoring the "stochastic viololence" of their street armies buring pregnancy centers, and now creating the thought crime, wherein possession of  some INSTRUCTIONS  or common tools turns a lump of metal or plastic into a heavily-regulated firearm shocks the concience.  What obedience is owed to a government that is so wildly out of control?

This does not end well.