I am an FFL, this is likely a question only the ATF can answer but I thought I would bounce it off of you guys for fun. I wonder if we could get away with manufacturing lowers that are basically just cut down the middle like in pic related, adding some bolt holes and modifications to them for structure. Then selling them as 80% unfinished. Don't include the bolts, just the two halves. Sell that with an assembly kit and you basically have an ar-15 that someone can assemble with nothing other than a crescent wrench. Other plus is, this is the kind of thing that is very easy for a CNC to mill.
I am an FFL, this is likely a question only the ATF can answer but I thought I would bounce it off of you guys for fun...
James Smith
Joshua Cruz
you are dumb and if you bothered to think for even a second how an AR lower is made you would realize how dumb you were
Nathaniel Price
Even if you could do that it wouldn't fly with the ATF.
Think about how they require to destroy a receiver so it isn't considered a firearm.
>Use an oxy/acetylene torch (not band sawed)
>Must remove at least ¼ inch of metal per cut
>Must be made at angles and completely sever the receiver in at least 3 critical locations (specified by model)
Daniel Gonzalez
No, but if you form 4 legally independent firms, then yes.
1 company buys 80's and splits them in half and then sells the left side to one company, and the right side to another company. Then the 4th company sources the bolts.
Make sure that the two companies own their own machining equipment, or they contract machining operations from a 5th legally independent firm.
Doesn't matter that you are one person, corporations are people, and because their property is distinct, the ATF can fuck off.
It's safest for the left receiver half and the right receiver half companies to never refer to one another in public statements/advertisements and never enter into contracts with each other. Also, never use the term 'receiver' internally.
Carter Reed
So don't make a firearm in the first place faggot. If it doesn't become a firearm anywhere in the process, then it isn't a firearm.
Isaiah Green
No because cutting a receiver in half doesn't make it not a gun
Robert King
So what kind of legal precedence would they have if the parts were deliberately manufactured as singular pieces, let's say divvied in thirds as is regulation, with 1/4" of the material removed, and then someone built uniform spacers to finish the gun? Surely it's possible to reunite the receiver in such a way, although it would be suboptimal you could still manufacture a working weapon, right?
Evan Morgan
>Bolting together thin aluminum.
The retardation involed to think this was in any way an acceptable idea is disturbing.
Jace Bell
Also, you can't bundle them together because although that's completely legal, the ATF is full of (((marxists))).
Owen Reed
At that point someone may as well just by an 80% lower. Would be cheaper that way.