IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR FREEPERS WITH FIREARMS!Akins Accelerator(tm) reclassified as NFA by BATFE

Atkins Accelerator (TM) ^ | 13 DEC 06 | dcbryan1

[DCBryan1]

BATFE DECIDES THE AKINS ACCELERATOR™ TO BE A MACHINEGUN

Akins Group Inc. regrets to announce that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has reversed its position and has decided the Akins Accelerator™ to be a machinegun conversion kit, thereby subjecting it to strict regulation under the Gun Control Act (GCA) and National Firearms Act (NFA).

ATF rescinded its previous determination that the Akins Accelerator™ was not a machinegun subject to the GCA or NFA (see http://www.firefaster.com/documentation.html for original documentation).

Attorneys for the Akins Group Inc. are seeking reconsideration by ATF of its new position. In the interim, any sale, transfer, or return of the Akins Accelerator™ must be suspended. Akins Group Inc. will advise further after meeting with ATF.

Akins Group Inc. has received no instruction as to the disposition of units in customer hands. Please refrain from public speculation and emotional responses and allow our Attorneys to advocate for everyone's best interests.

[DCBryan1]

Freepers, by BATFE ruling, if you are one of the tens of thousands of legal purchasers of the Atkins Accelerator (TM) in the last year, (UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE/RULING from BATFE), you should be aware that in a worst case scenario, your once, legally owned product may be subject to NFA registration and/or forfeiture to your local BATFE office/LEO office for disposal.

Congratulations BATFE! Your letter, several months ago told this manufacturer that his product was NOT subject to regulation and that he could go forth and persue the American dream by designing, researching, developing, marketing, and selling an item, and only later, under political pressure, come back to BAN THE ITEM, by reclassifying it. Thank you for now forcing this company to stop production, cease sales, unable to repair/service their product, and forced to go "lawyer up" and possibly have to "eat" huge amounts of legal recourse from angry customers who dropped $1000.00 plus for their product you, until recently blessed.

Thank you BATFE for stiffling enterprise, innovations, research, and development of anything doing with firearms. Thank you for making us less safe by reclassifying a stock as a machinegun. One more BATFE...do I have to register my right index finger as a machinegun now? It is capable of producing rapid fire on all of my semiautomatics....or do you want me to turn my right index finger into the local ATF shop to be torched and cut into four pieces?

[bk1000]

Remember, its for the children.

[DCBryan1]

Admin moderators, please don't move this to chat. This ruling has severe consequences for law abiding citizens with these kits. I have posted this to announcements, government (because of perceived BATFE abuse), crime/corruption (because once legal citizens are now in possession of (soon to be ruled) contraband that was legally purchased in the past).

Thanks, Mods...Freepers need to be aware of this decision, lest you might see BATFE agents crashing their doors in and either killing them or sending them to prison for ten (10) years.

[rwgal]

The BATF, our friend..../sarc

Meadow Muffin

[gnarledmaw]

Since these days any finger can be "easily converted" to an index finger, maybe they should all be torched...

[2harddrive]

QUESTION: Will the BATFE raid anybody's houses with flamethrowers, in order to confiscate those they had specifically approved?

[DCBryan1]

full auto(now illegal by BATFE ruling)

PING!

[LibWhacker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P8AbTKvykE

Wow, I'm gonna have to start reading the banglist more often. I've never heard of this thing.

[metmom]

ping

[DCBryan1]

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE ATKINS ACCELERATOR IS: It is simply a buttstock, a piece of a equipment, a tool, an implement that was, until recently, NOT A FIREARM, according to the NFA Technology Branch Chief.

What it did was use a recoil resistance spring in the buttstock that took a common, semi-auto Ruger 10/22 (probably the most popular rifle in America), and made it fire around 700 RPM.

The technology branch at BATFE took the prototype and its engineering design and told the company that, by federal law, and ATF definition, it WAS NOT a machinegun.

Now, months later, after youtube.com had made the company a huge profit and marketing boon, decided to reverse its own policy and definition and reclassify the buttstock so that it makes all of the owners of the item, now, a possible (until further ruling to be determined) felon.

[Last Laugh]

Thanks, Mods...Freepers need to be aware of this decision, lest you might see BATFE agents crashing their doors in and either killing them or sending them to prison for ten (10) years.

You'd think the Government would put a "Grandfather" clause on those who have already legally purchased it. I never knew this existed, or I may have purchased one.

At any rate, it seems a tad unconstitutional to break down peoples doors and seize their belongings.

[Yo-Yo]

Reading the documents, I found this excerpt from the BATFE letter amusing:

"The action of a semiautomatic SKS-type 7.62x39mm rifle from our firearms reference collection was placed within the submitted stock. the weapon was then test fired. Both of the adjustable screws fractured, breaking away from the underside of the stock. These fractures occured on the second test firing. The weapon did not fire more than one shot by a single function of the trigger."

So the example sent to the BATFE broke, and the BATFE based their findings on the fact the example broke!

[DCBryan1]

At any rate, it seems a tad unconstitutional to break down peoples doors and seize their belongings.

Do I detect sarcasm? You don't know much about the past dealings with ATF do you? ;0

[Kenton]

Here's how ya get around this:

1. Hold your semi-auto with your left hand on the handguard part of the stock.

2. Press the butt of the gun slightly against your torso.

3. Put you index finger slightly in front of the trigger, and relax your grip on the handguard so that the gun pushes forward from your torso, into your trigger finger.

The recoil will drive the rifle back into your soft torso, cock the gun, and your torso will push it back into your trigger finger.

Can't hit shit with it, but it rocks and rolls without any additions.

[LibWhacker]

Thanks. Would've loved to have one of those in my younger days. Would've been a lot of fun.

What should be banned are not machineguns, or buttstocks, or pistol grips, but the BATF!

[DCBryan1]

2. Press the butt of the gun slightly against your torso.

Damn, you mean I am going to have to stamp a serial number into my torso and wait 4 mos. for ATF approval? If they say no, I get to be turned into the ATF for destruction and disposal.

Hey, Im just following ATF rules here, ya know?

[Last Laugh]

Do I detect sarcasm?

LOL! Yes, you do

I've actually had a bit of experience with the ATF. I wonder how much I can tell? It involves a company I used to work for, seeing a couple of flashes of khaki pass by the front windows, turning around and seeing a drawn gun very near me and hearing the words "back away from your computer..NOW!" being said.

It was harrowing, but rather funny in a way (I knew I was innocent of whatever they were there for). The only thing I could say was "excuse me?". What I saw did not compute.

I always wondered why, in the movies, no one does what they are told when presented with a pointed gun. I know now - pure suprise prevents action.

[ASA Vet]

it seems a tad unconstitutional to break down peoples doors and seize their belongings

Which may explain just burning the people, doors, and belongings instead.

[Sax]

I had seen the Hellfire before, wasn't overly impressed. Now I'm ticked off that I didn't know about this beforehand. Crap.

[ASOC]

I watched the video, twice.

1) I wished my 10/22 fed as reliably as the one in the flick

2) I think any "reasonable person" would call the finished product a machine gun. Firing 25 or 50 rounds on a single trigger pull, IMO, qualifies this as a machine gun.

3) I would rather have a M16 than a re-worked 10/22, if nothing else the -16 was engineered to fire auto, and should stand up to the hard use much better than a reworked .22 semiauto..

4) While I applaud these folks for using youtube as an advert, one would think the term "hoist on their own petard" is appropriate.