“Drilling a hole or two, I would think, doesn’t give the same sort of reward that you get from working on your car on the weekends,” Roberts said
If the justices think that it is so easy to complete unfinished frames, receivers, 80% lowers or whatever you want to refer to them as and assemble a “gun kit” and actually put it all together and head out to the range... The justices should try it for themselves before wasting time arguing about it. My guess is that they would find that there is a lot more to this than just “drilling a hole or two.
There are lots of videos on YouTube that show someone installing new gaskets in their intake manifold or head(s) or tearing down and fixing a transmission that make it look very easy. But the reality is that it takes time, patience, knowledge and experience along with the proper tools.
I have all sorts of friends and acquaintances who have purchased so called “80% kits”. For some reason the vast majority never actually finish them and use them in a real gun. Why is that? Because there is quite a bit more to it than what Roberts believes.
So, set up a timer and video.
Start on your %80.
Stop at 30 minutes. What do you have? Probably just some sweeping your bench, finding some tools, sharpening a couple if bits, looking for specs on the web.
OOPs way over 30 minutes.
And now that gun is laying there on the bench waiting for you.