AR-15 owner - If the lower receiver can be slightly modified to accept an ar-15 upper, then I can understand the seizure. You can buy every piece of an AR-15 without a license, with the exception of the lower receiver which is a single piece of metal. If minor retooling makes these lower receivers viable, then congrats ATF, job well done. [From Comments]I can almost understand Fudds. Almost.
This I just don't get.
It would help if AR Boy would read everything. Sure, the upper fits, but it doesn't work. Sure, with enough effort and modification the trigger group can be crammed in. And it still doesn't work because the airsoft lowers aren't built to M-16 spec'd dimensions.
ReplyDeleteHey, an M-16 upper would fit on my bookcase shelf. That must be a machine gun, too.
If my shoelaces are machine guns so's your bookshelf.
ReplyDeleteYou know what would help? If someone pointed out in the Constitution where the federal government has the power to determine what constitutes a gun, and the power to determine for which purpose it is intended.
ReplyDeleteI ask, but only get pointed to the part where it says the Feds are absolutely, unequivocally barred from interfering with anything that has to do with a Citizen's right to any manner of personal weapon.
Let's be honest: this doesn't have anything to do with law. It's a game that no one but the ATF can win, because it consists of a bunch of malleable rules that everyone else has to follow, even if they can't know the rules in advance. Why? Because you'll get neck-stomped and machine-gunned if you don't. It doesn't matter what the rules are, because they'll just change them on account of your bad attitude, so that you'll get the neck-stomping and machine-gunning you deserve.
Even if public opinion causes the ATF to change its rules, it's not justice, it's just mercy.
To paraphrase L. Neil Smith, this guy must have no idea how ridiculous he looks lying there with his OWN boot on his neck...
ReplyDeleteI can buy even lower receivers without a license as I have plan drawings and machine tools and I know people that sell raw metal stock and plastics. Friend of mine built a Sten, PRE-86, legally and it's in the NFR&TR, with hand tools and scraps just to see if he could do it in a reasonable period of time, although he had machine tools available. Testing his bench metal skills so he wouldn't get rusty. Pakistanis in caves seem to smith pretty well without starting with airsofts, too.
ReplyDeleteGun Laws were written to be very malleable in court so that politicians wouldn't have to take any heat for enforcing them and then the politicians and gun cops point fingers at each other and take turns yelling "good cop" and "bad cop". Therefore, nobody is ever responsible. The BATFE does this internally, as well, they shift you around writing letters to different departments, as they won't say much of anything over the telephone, and then the other departments shift you back to the one that sent you there. It's somewhat useful they don't answer any questions over the phone, anyway, as it's about impossible to get anybody in ANY of their stations or HQs to actually pick one up off the receiver unless maybe you were calling yourself in as a homegrown domestic extremist.
Hell, they sent gun cops with a warrant to arrest one of Len's firearms...as I believe y'all know.