Not true. So long as you're not making and selling them in quantities that would demonstrate you're really doing it as a business, it's perfectly legal (depending on your state laws) to sell one of these guns just as it would be any other gun you own and no longer want. The ATF does suggest you serialize guns you make, supposedly for establishing ownership should they be stolen.
” ‘Furthermore, you cannot sell what you make for yourself.’ “
“Not true. So long as you’re not making and selling them in quantities ... ATF does suggest you serialize ... should they be stolen.”
Forum members are admonished to proceed cautiously.
The agency has long resisted a formal, quantifiable, legally binding definition of “engaging in the business” of selling guns. Despite many requests from the public, and legislators.
“Manufacturing” has been plagued by fuzzy definitions also. Of late, more than one federal official has attempted to lower the bar concerning what constitutes “manufacturing” a gun. Several wish to redefine the simplest and most elementary repairs as “manufacturing” - which would require a different (more costly, and more restrictive) license than the basic dealer license the agency now requires gunsmiths to hold.
Making and selling several might not be a problem; making and selling just one might be. Depends on the mood of the day.