Posted on 08/08/2016 5:03:39 PM PDT by MtnClimber
My gunsmith has a lathe, a drill press, even a barrel reamer. He uses them to repair guns. To him, they are like a car mechanic’s welding equipment, drill and cutter tools. He never thought drilling out a broken-off screw or grinding down a gun part to make a rifle’s action work smoother would define him as a “manufacturer.” But now, according to the federal government, he is a manufacturer and is required to pay a $2,250 annual fee as mandated by the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) regulations. This is what the Obama administration is now saying in a rule change.
Manta lists 15,615 gunsmiths in American today. Many of these are small shops—many of them are even side businesses for people who began tinkering with guns and then went to a gunsmith school. Requiring these people to pay $2,250 every year will drive many of them out of business or underground. Perhaps that is the reason for the rule change from the Obama administration. If there is another reason, they aren’t making it public.
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Destruction through regulatory strangulation.
He’s just giving Hillary some more ideas...
The founders of this nation would have had the call to arms by now...
This is absurd rule. My gunsmith shared same with me Friday night. The details are even worse. They cannot now hardly do any upgrades, repairs, and all.
Yes. They must complete the gun agenda to have all the peasants unable to protect themselves or fight back.
Globalist utopia. All of us in poverty. Them not so much.
Ping
(You have this gear at the ranch?)
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The post before this was for you (Sorry Mtnclimber) LOL
I agree but beg to differ. Our forefathers would have begun shooting a long, long time ago.
They can’t support this in court.
A repairman is not a manufacturer.
well of course this admin is after gunsmiths !!! this is all part of Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 to disarm citizens globally.
oh and btw, I’m a lifelong member of the NRA
I have been thinking about becoming a gun-smith. Great profession.
The founders of this nation would have had the call to arms by now...
......after they took us to the wood shed for letting it get so far out of hand.
They can’t support this in court.
A repairman is not a manufacturer.
That’s right. They should not comply.
The Sultan can’t immediately ban guns or confiscate them but he can make them evermore expensive to own.
We lost everything in a passin sharkanado event,
What if they ignore a court ruling? It is not as if they have not done so for other court rulings. What, then is the practical recourse? So long as the death is by a thousand cuts no cut is worth going to arms and rebellion for the citizens.
+0/0 (if you know math, that is actually the next level of infinity because it encompasses all numbers up to infinity)
I just put an Optic, a quck release mount and sling, and a 4 slot picatinny for my x300 light....all on my Rainier Arms AR-15.
Do I owe a tax or sumthin now? I have the rifle sequestered in a safe soft sided carry case so it does not go on a rampage btw.
Isn’t this going to drive the gunsmiths even more “into the shadows”??
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