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Now The Obama Administration Is After Gunsmiths?
Forbes ^ | 8 Aug, 2016 | Frank Miniter

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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KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; obama
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To: MtnClimber
My gunsmith has a lathe, a drill press, even a barrel reamer.

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.

41 posted on 08/08/2016 6:16:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: editor-surveyor

These government retards are trying to manufacture an argument where there is no basis for one. Typical desperation move.


42 posted on 08/08/2016 6:17:00 PM PDT by W. (Hillary is just like that ex-partner you've hated forever!)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


43 posted on 08/08/2016 6:17:38 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: MtnClimber

They can have my Hornady progressive when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.


44 posted on 08/08/2016 6:19:04 PM PDT by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: RoosterRedux

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.


45 posted on 08/08/2016 6:20:16 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: MtnClimber

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.


46 posted on 08/08/2016 6:40:55 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
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.

Damn straight!

47 posted on 08/08/2016 6:47:50 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: W.

Fear the thug that fears your gun!


48 posted on 08/08/2016 7:05:28 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: MtnClimber
Requiring these people to pay $2,250 every year will drive many of them out of business or underground.

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.

49 posted on 08/08/2016 7:06:44 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmarked.


50 posted on 08/08/2016 7:51:16 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: MtnClimber

“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.”


Perhaps? Was the author born yesterday?


51 posted on 08/08/2016 8:46:16 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ColdOne

Democrats want to be able to shoot blacks again.


52 posted on 08/08/2016 10:44:35 PM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: Ouderkirk
Add the Sig 229 and 10-22 to the list.
53 posted on 08/08/2016 10:58:18 PM PDT by kitchen (If you are a luthier please ping me.)
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To: Edward.Fish

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.


54 posted on 08/08/2016 11:07:12 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Karl Marx Treatment Center- -"We will tell you what to think")
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To: MtnClimber

Gee sorta sounds like a “poll tax” strategy obummer is using......


55 posted on 08/08/2016 11:15:11 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: thesligoduffyflynns
There is one issue there: being all talk and no action.
56 posted on 08/09/2016 12:04:33 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Edward.Fish

Need help? check in to the Karl Marx Treatment Center courtesy of the peoples cube- there you can get help in uderstanding- “Current Truth”, Thematic Truth, and Expired Truth”


57 posted on 08/09/2016 1:50:47 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Karl Marx Treatment Center- -"We will tell you what to think")
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To: Edward.Fish

well here’s a lotta’ action & absolutely no talking

Mr. Hotness Summer 2016!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3714238/They-sexy-know-Middle-aged-Italian-caravan-tycoon-gyrates-Euro-pop-wearing-bizarre-loincloth-trades-moves-young-woman-bikini.html


58 posted on 08/09/2016 5:00:14 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Karl Marx Treatment Center- -"We will tell you what to think")
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To: MtnClimber

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.


59 posted on 08/09/2016 5:07:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Great way for the feds to generate a list of citizens with gunsmith skills.


60 posted on 08/09/2016 6:01:50 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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