“...in the Gun Control Act of 1968: One section of the Act allows any private individual to build a firearm at home for personal use if they can otherwise legally own a gun.”
Does the statute actually say “at home”? (If you know, please tell me where to look. I’ve scanned a LOT of the text and haven’t found the relevant part yet).
If the law does stipulate “at home”, how does building your rifle in some guy’s warehouse qualify for the exception. I assume the warehouse is not the customers’ “home” (but in CA, who knows...).
No, it doesn’t specify “at home” that’s been added by the gun grabbers. You do not have to build your gun at home. You can build it in your work shop, at a friend’s house, or at your work. IT only specifies you have to do it yourself, individually. You cannot buy it from pre-made by another person. It says nothing about getting help from someone, either. Interstate Commerce is the justification for the US Government having anything to say about any of it. . . in fact, the argument could be made they have no business regulating ANY gun business that has nothing to do with intra-state commerce, until it crosses a state line. Technically, and legally, if I wanted to build a gun and sell it to my next door neighbor, it should be no business legal of the US Government to regulate that sale. It has NOT ONE WHIT TO DO WITH INTERSTATE COMMERCE! The US Government is overstepping its constitutional mandate to try to regulate such a transaction.
You won’t find the text you are looking for in the Gun Control Act of 1968...building your own gun for personal use has always been legal, the Gun Control Act of 1968 just better defined who a “manufacturer for sale” was.