I try to stay out of gray areas with BATF
“I try to stay out of gray areas with BATF”
Absolutely! These folks building 80% guns are nuts if thy think the gooberment doesn’t know. They have everyone’s credit card purchase info, 1,000 rounds of 223 ordered, you are assumed to have an AR. Same for a barrel, fire control group, etc.
Factory lowers can b bought for $39 now, no need for all the cloak and dagger.
It’s not a gray area. The ATF has admitted that you may legally construct a functioning firearm (i.e. the part that is serialized by the manufacturer) as long as you do the work yourself. Since a 80% completed lower is just a chunk of metal as far as the AFT cares, anyone can purchase one without having it recorded in some dealers bound book. Therefore the ATF has no record of it.
There is no gray area. Manufacturing and being “in the business” are defined in law.