Tag: ATF

  • 80% AR-15 Lower Receiver V.S. Airsoft Lower Receiver – Is there a legal difference?

    I was thinking some more about that recent ATF airsoft seizure and came up with the following… For your information, per provisions of the Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, an unlicensed individual may make a “firearm” as defined in the GCA for his own personal use, but not for sale…

  • Airsoft Gun Seizure – Apparently Toys Can Be Real Guns

    I didn’t report on this story when it first surfaced because I thought it was stupid, and would go away quickly.  But It didn’t. TACOMA, Wash. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a shipment of 30 machine guns that arrived in an ocean container at the Tacoma Seaport last October. Officials say the…

  • ATF laughs at your Firearms Freedom Act

    Got this gem from Linoge at Walls of the City: If it’s just business as usual for these states that are getting the bill passed, then why is there so much fuss?  Or is a challenge to the ATF’s assertion that you still must obey them the next thing on the agenda to be challenged?…

  • Firearms Freedom Act – So NFA rules do not apply?

    The United States Constitution – 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Firearms Freedom Act (FFA) is a fight for our 10th Amendment right. In Montana, Tennessee, and hopefully soon…

  • ABC News – How to get a grenade launcher

    I love how at the start of the video starts with “A simple google search got us 164000 entries…” The picture they show at 40seconds is from the destructive device section of AutoWeapons.com.  My guess is ABC fabricated that whole phone call and stole the picture, because I doubt anyone that works at AutoWeapons is…

  • Shoestring Machine Gun

    In September 2004 the ATF decided that a 14 inch long shoestring was considered a machine gun: