[Yo-Yo]

According to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, as a gunsmith you have to register with the State Department and pay an annual fee of $2,250 if you perform any of the following services:

a) Use of any special tooling or equipment upgrading in order to improve the capability of assembled or repaired firearms;

b) Modifications to a firearm that change round capacity;

c) The production of firearm parts (including, but not limited to, barrels, stocks, cylinders, breech mechanisms, triggers, silencers, or suppressors);

d) The systemized production of ammunition, including the automated loading or reloading of ammunition;

e) The machining or cutting of firearms, e.g., threading of muzzles or muzzle brake installation requiring machining, that results in an enhanced capability;

f) Rechambering firearms through machining, cutting, or drilling;

g) Chambering, cutting, or threading barrel blanks; and

h) Blueprinting firearms by machining the barrel.

In other words, if you perform any gunsmithing operation that requires more skill than your typical bubba at his kitchen table.

[MtnClimber]

The systemized production of ammunition

I wonder if they would apply this to a progressive reloading press? Would they give a "progressive" a break? I doubt it.

[marktwain]

This is part of the “solution” to personally owned arms.

Make any “gunsmith” illegal without being registered.

The Japanese did this in 1607. It was one of the main ways they made Japan a “gun free” zone.