“It is legal to build a rifle from scratch without serial numbers only if the base is manufactured to ATF specifications. The base is not considered a firearm if it’s sold separately.”
Bad reporting.
An 80% lower is a hunk of metal that is worked to be almost an AR-15. It requires a bit more work and is considered a homemade firearm which means it can never be sold, only willed.
Short but way more accurate than that blurb.
Do the full auto rules still aplly?
You got it right. The headline on this is totally bogus.
Yet still not accurate. ;)
As I’ve read/heard it it, you can sell it, but you have to serialize it at that time and then run it through the 4473/DROS process.
80%’s sales will probably go through the roof here. I think most of the sellers also sell templates for easy machining out of the remaining metal and with the Jan 1st rules for long gun registry with purchase it’s probably the last best way in CA to have an off record LBR. Prior to this you went through DROS/BG Check process, but they didn’t record the type of long gun (just rifle or shotgun IIRC)