Posted on 05/24/2013 7:42:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rifle-building parties mix burgers and beer with a chance to sidestep gun laws by building your own weapon.
What’s a party without some brewskies, a few burgers on the grill and a group of buddies just kicking back and assembling some of the world’s deadliest assault weapons from make-shift parts?
That’s the premise of so-called rifle "build parties" that are spawning across the U.S. and in California in particular, where the gun laws are considered to be among the country’s most restrictive.
Although gun ownership makes a person subject to having their firearms registered with the government, build parties provide a setting in which gun aficionados can circumvent that requirement. They’re a convenient way to obtain trendy AR-15 or AK-47 assault rifles without the bureaucratic headaches associated with gun ownership, according to firearms advocates.
That’s because there is no law prohibiting Americans from making their own firearms for personal use, explains Alan Gottleib, founder of the Seattle-based Second Amendment Foundation.
"People get together to build their own rifle, so to speak. They buy the parts, they sit down together, and they assemble them," he said. "Of course the way the laws are written, if you’re making a gun for your own use and it’s not commercial, there’s no law against that."
Lindsay Nichols, attorney with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in San Francisco, confirmed the legality. "That's right, the law is weak enough that it doesn't apply to making your own gun for your own personal use," she said. "I think what's scariest about these gun build parties is the kinds of guns we're talking about. "
IT'S LIKE KNITTING AND BARBIES
Gene Hoffman, the San Francisco-based chairman of the Calguns Foundation, which promotes "Second Amendment freedom fighting," characterizes the knowledge-sharing gatherings as just another group for hobbyists....
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Where do they get the lower receiver from?
HA! HA! Feinstein!!!
Good question.
The lower receiver is 95% complete. You just have to complete it by drilling a hole or bending a piece of metal to be legal.
They’re 80% receivers that are finished on tooling/machinery/supervision made available to the builders.
Really?
Where?
They make them from stamped flats for an AK. For an AR, they can still buy “off-list” lowers because some guy won a lawsuit against the state several years ago.
The rifles they make still have to adhere to California law, of course.
Like a Tupperware party, for guys!
BYO receiver.
AK receivers are not high tech to make either. Amy machine shop and a pattern can make them.
Like yourself,not that i’m aware of and i live in NY.
It’s not “sidestepping” the law if youens wantz to buit yer own gun.
So long as is not’s for resale it is absolutely legal.
For AR15 and AR10 you can purchase what’s called and 89% block of metal and finish it yourself.
Im a chick and Id love to be invited to one of these parties!
“Any” machine shop. By the way, that is illegal, but I suppose the production of evil assault rifles behind liberal lines in CA and NY is already illegal.
“Although gun ownership makes a person subject to having their firearms registered with the government, build parties provide a setting in which gun aficionados can circumvent that requirement.”
No, you moron. There is no requirement to register your gun.
Google ‘80% AR receiver’ - there are several vendors out there.
Since the receiver is not finished it does not need to be registered.
They don’t call’em the men’s Barbie for nothin!
This story really rings my bell....
Its reminds me of my grandmother bragging how in the great Depression early 30s prohibition when she was in her 20s how she and my grandfather would throw parties and for it she made Gin in their bathtub.
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