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Posted: 8/3/2004 7:32:41 PM EDT
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this is probably a stupid question but here goes. i was looking around at the numrich website and see they have all kinds of parts. would it be legal to buy the parts and put them together to make a new gun? like say i wanted to build a mauser rifle and i bought all the stuff off the website that took to build it. would that be breaking the law? or are they only to be used as replacement parts? thanks 
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At the core of every modern firearm is one essential part that has the serial number. On a pistol it's the frame, on an AR it's the lower receiver, on a FAL it's the upper receiver, etc, etc. That is the part that the BATFE considers "the gun." You must buy that part through an FFL. Not every shop selling stuff puts that in their ads, they assume you know it, and won't sell it to you without a copy of an FFL. So you can buy all the other parts through the mail, by phone, over the Web.... But that one essential part must be ordered in such a way that an FFL-holder takes delivery, enters it on his books, takes your form 4473 and does the NICS check. Then you get to build your gun. |
Not true. If you build a gun for yourself (not for resale), then you don't have to have a serial number. For example if you take an 80% AR receiver and complete it, you are well within the law. |
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