I don’t understand.. aren’t receivers treated as if they were guns?
My understanding is that you can’t build a gun as described.
Unless the machine shop was manufacturing the receivers themselves.
It’s an 80% receiver in “as-cast” condition that has machining remaining to turn it into a functional receiver. Current law allows someone to do this for themselves but it is not for sale or transfer.
That’s pretty much my understanding. A customer of mine — a precision tool & die outfit — had a customer with Remmington. The manufacturing area had to be physically separate from the rest of the operation and every component was serialized with full traceability. Federal requirement.
My guess is that MSN doesn’t understand the Law, and easily fell for a false story, repeating it to their own embarrassment.