In addition, the things in the rule are all tweaks that sound pretty minor, and at the end of the day it's really only going to effect Polymer80 and some AR '80%' makers.
You can be sure that the SIGs and Glocks and Rugers of the world won't have any problems, but anything that was '80%' will definitely be on their wrong side.
The big issue is the latitude it gives the ATF in defining 'frame or receiver' in the future. Specifically the idea that multiple parts of the firearm could be considered a F/R. That's something the ATF excludes in one part (the section on 'modular' recovers like the AR) but then opens up again in another section (the ghost gun part).
If they were doing this correctly they would split this into (3) proposals.
First for defining 'modular' receivers that would settle the AR court issues.
Second to cover their proposed extension of FFLs keeping paperwork beyond the current 20 year cutoff.
Third, for the 'ghost gun' issue, of when a firearm becomes a firearm in the manufacturing process.
Instead they buried all three of these proposals on 115 pages of bureaucratic nonsense and doublespeak.
You can be sure that the SIGs and Glocks and Rugers of the world won't have any problems, but anything that was '80%' will definitely be on their wrong side.
The big issue is the latitude it gives the ATF in defining 'frame or receiver' in the future. Specifically the idea that multiple parts of the firearm could be considered a F/R. That's something the ATF excludes in one part (the section on 'modular' recovers like the AR) but then opens up again in another section (the ghost gun part).
If they were doing this correctly they would split this into (3) proposals.
First for defining 'modular' receivers that would settle the AR court issues.
Second to cover their proposed extension of FFLs keeping paperwork beyond the current 20 year cutoff.
Third, for the 'ghost gun' issue, of when a firearm becomes a firearm in the manufacturing process.
Instead they buried all three of these proposals on 115 pages of bureaucratic nonsense and doublespeak.