Are you anti 2nd amendment or do you just automatically side with the state against anyone they claim is a criminal?
The point the OP is making is that these "idiots" are defrauding honest gun purchasers to the tune of $10,000-$50,000 each.
You are in violation of your own tag line “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
The reality is that individual citizens do not choose what laws to obey and which ones to declare unconstitutional.
The Body Politic does; through the Courts. The Courts have held the FFA to be constitutional, and neither your opinion, nor mine has force of law.
Sorry, you may not like it, but reality can be a bitch.
“There is a legal case to be made that the serial number of the gun is the part of the gun being licensed and should, therefore, be transferable.”
As a vehicle has a serial number (VIN) adn that refers to that specific vehicle, might I inquire as to how welding that bit of material with the number onto an entirely different gun is different than putting the VIN of a Mercedes onto a Pinto and calling the Pinto a Mercedes?
Aside from the Second Amendment issues, does not such switching become fraud?
I guess that would depend on how much of that original gun remained attached to that serial number.
This sounds similar to someone rebuilding a car by transferring a VIN.