Below is a picture of a Registered Drop-in Auto Sear. This one sold for $28,750 in 2017.
For this to work, an M-16 Fire Control Group must be installed. It would not work with an AR-15 fire control group.
Posted on 09/08/2022 11:55:08 AM PDT by Sawdring
25-year-old man from Minneapolis has been federally charged for being in possession of and manufacturing auto sears, devices that are used to convert a semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun.
The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Andrew Luger, says that Aaron Malik Cato had four 3D printers at his residence and was in possession of several 3D-printed auto sears.
In addition to the homemade devices, authorities say Cato also possessed the parts to make up to 10 more devices. Customs and Border Patrol agents intercepted a package sent from Taiwan to Minneapolis destined for Cato, and law enforcement conducted a controlled delivery of the package.
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He’s black so he’ll plea bargain down to Jay Walking and get a small fine.
No right to bear 3d printed parts.
The Sears Auto department was much better than KMart's Auto department, because Sears had the DieHard battery...
or better yet: repeal 18 USC 922(o) - hell how about Chapter 4 of the GCA!? THAT would be fair.
So what law was violated? If 2A interpretation asserts the people have the right to bear arms, wouldn’t that include R&D and manufacture?
Good for him, hope he dumped the blueprints on the internet before they busted him.
Even better, it appears some judges are beginning to ask the same questions about the new "frame kit" rules when the BATFE admits that none of the 80% components are actually firearms under the law.
My bad: under the NFA any part specifically designed for use in a machine gun or to convert one is technically a “machine gun.”
I’ll do some research later but I’d guess the actual charges were illegal possession of machine guns and the writer is just being lazy or wanted a sensational headline.
From the article:
Interesting choice to lead the government's 2A case...
That would just be a fully automatic instead of a machine gun.
The mistake was 3d printing “machine gun” parts. The Firearms Act of 1932 pretty much bans private manufacturing of what they class “machine guns” completely. You can still buy them if you jump through the right hoops, and you can manufacture other kinds of firearms for your own personal use without having to jump through those hoops, but crossing that particular line is a big no-no.
The law doesn’t make any distinction between the two. Even something only capable of burst fire is a “machine gun” under the law.
The ATF once, famously, determined a shoe string was a machine gun because someone gerry rigged a rifle to shoot multiple shots per trigger pull with said string.
“If 2A interpretation asserts the people have the right to bear arms...”
Not all “arms” are created equal.
I understand with the AR-15 that if you purchase a 80% lower, you have to be damn careful about the machining to finish it up. Someone told me there are three possible holes you can drill, and two of them are okay. If you even have a drill bit dimple in the area of the third one, they can legally charge you and send you to jail, which is what I am told they will gleefully and enthusiastically do.
I don’t know if that is true, but the person who told me that sounded like knew exactly what they were talking about, so I believe him.
Below is a picture of a Registered Drop-in Auto Sear. This one sold for $28,750 in 2017.
For this to work, an M-16 Fire Control Group must be installed. It would not work with an AR-15 fire control group.
For God’s sake, nobody show a picture of the damn thing, or we could all get arrested and jailed for trafficking in paper plans for plastic untraceable machine gun parts!
/sarc
(It may be sarc — but is it really so far out there these days?)
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