But coining your own money for use as currency is:
http://law.onecle.com/uscode/18/486.html
Oh give me a break. They’ve been in operation for nearly 10 years, and under federal scrutiny for that entire time, don’t you think that if this 18 USC 486 notion carried any weight they would have been shut down nine and a half years ago and been done with their five-year prison hitch four years ago?
http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/faqs/disclaimer.htm
Title 26 requires that “all firearms” be registered with the Secretary of the Treasury. Just as the implications of this requirement depend on the meaning of the term “firearm,” the implications of 18 USC 486 depend on “intent” and the meaning of the phrase “current money.”