Updated NFA handbook

[JohnBrown]

Getting specific feedback on specific issues is exactly what we are looking for. Put in writing on this forum and I can guarantee we will take it on. We are always looking for holes in interpretations and anything that feet on the ground are experiencing with ATF. Just let us know what your issues are and we will not only get you the right answers but in many cases we can get it in writing and get it out to the field so that everyone is singing from the same sheet of music.

[BWE Firearms]

I will start posting issues as I remember then and have time to post them. Here is the first one.

What is destored? Not for importation as is in the current handbook but when it is sitting on my workbench. I have been told by ATF everything from it is my call since I am the expert, to a single bandsaw cut, to if it takes me 8 hours to rebuild (By whos watch?), to what is in the NFA handbook for the importation of parts kits.

I realize that I am not most people. I have the skill and equipment to take a reciever that has been melted down into a puddle and turn it back into the exact same receiver markings and all. It's just a mater of how long it takes. Everyone is playing buy different rules when it comes to destroying recievers. It is not that hard of a question.

I had an issue with an Slotted Uzi bolt and trying to figure out what destroyed was. I have also had issues with MP5 parts kits that come from Police Departments. I had a few in here that customers had sent me for building into SBR's. I was told that they still concidered machine guns even though they cut up. The parts kits were still left here after they told me they were illegal machine guns.

[BWE Firearms]

When does a firearms reciever or suppressor need to be marked?

I have been told I had to serialize and register to 12' lengths of DOM tubbing as suppressors as soon as it came in the door. I have also been told that it does not have to be marked and registered until it is to the point that anyone can screw parts on and have it function as well as it doesn't have to be marked until it goes out the door.

I understand that there is a big difference between when I am making 1, 2, or 6 suppressors in a run and Gemtech making 500 in a run, but we are both manufacturers and there is no difference at what point the tube becomes a suppressor and they should be marked. I just would like a simple answer for a simple question from ATF.

Again everyone is playing buy different rules. To me this is pretty simple stuff as to when something becomes a usable item of course I am just a gunsmith, what do I know about guns.