I think it's actually a lot more straightforward than that, unless you think the ATF is really "out to target you" personally. In which case they have a lot of other ways to eff you up.
If you establish a pattern of behavior, buying items and then selling them unfired or slightly fired, over a...
I don't think you're at any significant risk. You've owned a selection of different firearms over the course of a couple of decades, you're selling them off and - most importantly - you're not replacing them with 'new stock' that you're turning over, fired or unfired.
When someone gets picked up for some other "offense" that the ATF decides you've committed, this will be another chapter in "The Book" that they can throw at the defendant.
Another regulation that they'll use to enhance the charge, putting more pressure on the defendant to cop a plea deal...
The ammo situation was answered somwhere else. As I remember it, the issue is that duty has to have been paid on the brass(?).
Certainly not legal advice, but this seems like a taxation issue, and if no money or goods were exchanged, no financial transation has occurred, and by extension, no...
Bear in mind, many air rifles have muzzle velocities over 1000 fps, (of course, in those situations a moderator is only of some use) - but yeah, they can be as loud as some .22s
But the objective is to stop capital punishment entirely.
Most criminals have no real self-reflection and are not particularly bright. If they do have some awareness that the guy who was just executed that might be them in 10 years time don't care because they typically have a time preference...
I'm not religious, but it seems to me that the best thing to do is to get the prisoner up there in front of the Lord as quickly as possible and let Him render his judgment one way or the other.
Because they're quick, effective, and won't convince the voting public that they're cruel. The objective is to ensure that lots of people consider the death penalty cruel so that it can be abolished.
I don't really disagree personally with that, but it simply creates a huge amount of public attention when people imagine some guy who's been locked up for 15 years following multiple appeals, ends up flopping around on a gurney like a gaffed pike for 20 minutes. It's even worse when there's...
Let's remember how we got here. If the aim really is to conduct an execution with the minimum amount of distress in the minimum amount of time, there are many options that are available except that legislators have this habit of barring their use, usually in an attempt to undermine the justice...