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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.

[Tench_Coxe]

Imagine an 'armed' protest where blocks of solid aluminum were brought. Would the Mockingbirds dare to claim that the protesters brought guns?

That's how ridiculous it is.

But your points are well taken. Something is going to break at some point.