Let them be angry and alarmed. It is not illegal to build your own firearm and as far as I know it never has been. Other than the degree of difficulty, what is the difference?
Why go to all the trouble, you can still buy them assembled.
It is still possible to easily build from components an AR style rifle. The machined receiver is the registered component I have read. You could until the gun grab find the un-machined castings for that too. And I have read it depends on what state you live in if it is illegal to have one without a serial number.
The left is really wetting their panties.
If I had to, I could build a functioning rifle with a lathe. Do not need another project. hee hee hee
It is illegal. The ATF has very strict requirements about building receivers. If you home build a gun, you have to have an ATF builder’s FFL, and register the gun.
My local gunsmith and I were talking about building a 1911 variant for fun, and he looked into the regs.