I'll sell you one of mine. I was an early adopter and I bought the whole set of NASCAR survival Altoid tins... one for each driver. Set me back a pretty penny but I knew it was a purchase that would take care of my family for generations to come.
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Brown Hawk Industries: Soft advertising and asking for feedback
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I'll sell you one of mine. I was an early adopter and I bought the whole set of NASCAR survival Altoid tins... one for each driver. Set me back a pretty penny but I knew it was a purchase that would take care of my family for generations to come.
You know what you got.
Me? I'd put 'em back in the safe.
Those survival kits are the reason I'm able to laugh at N&J's Tesla stock accomplishments. Until he has a few of these suckers, he'll remain a poor.
Honest question because I have no knowledge on the subject. Is he breaking the law and how so?
I think it's debatable to if he needs an FFL or not but Yes he 100% is by operating a business without having a business license and a Federal Tax ID number. Essentially tax fraud if he is collecting money and not reporting it as income. I guess he could report the income as personal income and not need an EIN but that seems real messy and probably unlikely to be occurring in the case. I'm also no accountant or lawyer.
But it also doesn't seem like anyone has paid him to do anything yet so probably nothing illegal until he accepts money and doesn't claim it on his taxes. Man I HATE taxes!
Any unlicensed business is technically breaking the law at the county, State and federal level (although **** them laws)
Unlicensed business dealing with firearms is going to get attention from the ATF as well.
Even if you're just painting the guns or mounting scopes or whatever ATF says you legally need an FFL.
Unless he has the official service manual, I’m afraid he’s unqualified. 🤣
I haven't been paid by a customer yet. I'm am in the process of getting an LLC and paperwork with the county. I follow several well known armorers online who build uppers and have only an LCC and proper tax docs. And they are fine legally. So I will be as well once I have the paperwork here soon.
The thing is that if he really is accepting work and being paid for it at the moment, he's exposing himself to a number of risks that will become genuine legal liabilities soon, if not already - Tax, FFL stuff. Those will inevitably increase his costs, so the dream of putting ARs together as a "paying hobby" that actually leaves money in his pocket diminishes.
Compliance such as having that FFL puts him far further into the safe zone and would protect him from any attention he gets.
In other ways, he's exposing himself to a world of trouble because guns are dangerous things that attract litigation when things don't go right. This may or may not be a huge risk, but I don't see any evidence that it was really considered.
We haven't got into the weeds over whether he has an appreciation of the engineering implications of assembling a full firearm from parts for different vendors (stacking tolerances, very slight manufacturing incompatibilities etc.) that may or may not be being addressed. If those are an issue, his risk level goes up again.
I like to support spunky go-get-'em entrepreneurs, but as others have said, building "custom" guns out of "economy" parts is a race to the bottom. The very fact someone wants a custom solution usually means that is that they want a combination of features you can't get elsewhere, so you can't just expect these components to just "go together perfectly" - there's always that risk that the assembler will need to have at least some of the capabilities of a gunsmith to (a) determine whether its safe to make that change and (b) actually do the necessary work.
If the objective is to get a 'cheap gun', then there's going to be little interest in paying for someone to assemble it (whether they too are "inexpensive" or not). The customers this business model will attract are almost certainly people with little or no understanding of what constitutes a well-built gun, and they may not even be aware of the risks attendant to buying a gun from a new entrant to the gun-build market.
But in specific answer, there are a lot of local and federal employees who could create a world of hurt for him already.
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