Latitude Adjustment

From Len Savage in re my latest piece on AmmoLand about "inconsistent" ATF classifications and rules:

To your question:

ATF Parlor Trick....One of many.

The ATF pulls these parlor tricks and yes they have been called on it several times. Good evidence has never been the problem. The problem is getting anybody to look at it.

A 1919 side plate anyone? A 1919 Browning will run quite fine with out it's "receiver"......Under the statute the barrel extension would be the frame or receiver.

All MAC firearms the upper is statutorily the frame or receiver yet the ATF regulates another part.

Why and how can this kind of thing happen?

ATF pretends to run a evidence laboratory, but has no written testing criteria, only safety rules. These people are "testing" evidence in federal court.

They claimed to have had "John Brown" of the NFATCA write them for the ATF in 2009...

ATF in regulating the wrong part as a frame or receiver can at will strike down any new "upper" for the AR, MAC, etc. they don't like. To quote the former acting chief of FTB Rick Vasquez "We prefer the latitude the present system affords us".