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 mechanics welding equipment, drill and cutter tools. He never thought drilling out a broken-off screw or grinding down a gun part to make a rifles 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 Departments 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 shopsmany 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 arent making it public.
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A lot of shops that have nothing to do with firearms have lathes and drill presses. Will they be exempt? If so I think the courts will slap this down.
These government retards are trying to manufacture an argument where there is no basis for one. Typical desperation move.
It’s the PCR-80’s that they are looking at.
if you read the regulation, how many “hobbyists” are producing finished lower AR receivers without serial numbers?
You look at the number of NICS checks for serialized units, how many millions are going out with out serials as PCR-80’s
This goes for AR’s and 1911’s. Both are easy to complete with the available jigs, and nominal experience.
They can have my Hornady progressive when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Very good idea. You do not perform gunsmithing you train and provide for the use of machines and equipment.
Kinda like when a new local law required getting a special permit to rent the mother in law unit as a vacation rental. My friend just stopped charging money for the unit and only accepted donations. Of any kind like booze and food and ammo and... Well you get the idea.
The power to regulate is the power to destroy. Congress is just as much to blame as Obama for unconstitutionally creating dozens of alphabet agencies and giving them the power to create regulations with the weight of law. Then they have the gall to act surprised and outraged that a power hungry president like Obama abuses that power.
Damn straight!
Fear the thug that fears your gun!
That ain't the half of it. I have a friend in the business. Small one-man operation. Right now he's still at the info gathering stage but he's looking at either a small vacation or retirement - depending on which way the election goes.
Bookmarked.
“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.”
Democrats want to be able to shoot blacks again.
Perhaps you could stick to ONE ISSUE in ONE PARAGRAPH?
Your verbiage of a post here reminds me of a white male set up caller on the Howie Carr Show WHYN 560 Springfield Mass- who calls in every so often complaining he has exhausted his foodstamps, has exhausted his cash benefit , has run out pain meds days early and no has no money for his cream sherry or to pay for porn or a prostitute & all the while shot-gunning questions to Howie.
He also regularly calls into Coast to Coast with long detailed questions about the universe, the planets that surround us and the galaxy we live in all the while claiming a degree in astrophysics.
Your post reminds me of all of that.
Gee sorta sounds like a “poll tax” strategy obummer is using......
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well here’s a lotta’ action & absolutely no talking
Mr. Hotness Summer 2016!
The NRA needs to jump in here and fund a class action lawsuit on behalf of gunsmiths against the ATF. First step would be a request for a temporary restraining order preventing implementation of the new rules.
Great way for the feds to generate a list of citizens with gunsmith skills.
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