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Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:14:29 PM EDT
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Meh, why worry about it.  Trump, the bastion of RKBA freedom, will put a stop to this non sense.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:15:06 PM EDT
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers.
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Yeah, reading is hard.

Non-issue.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:15:21 PM EDT
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FPNI

Also looks like that would probably apply to AR57 uppers.
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not unless they're bolt action
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:16:05 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:16:16 PM EDT
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They did it with the FNC.
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What was this? I'm not familiar.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:16:55 PM EDT
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Fuck the ATF
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FUCK ATF.  Those cunts.

we need to campaign with the Don to shut them down. Wasteful govt spending on useless and illegal laws.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:18:11 PM EDT
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If the upper is the firearm, then the lower is not a firearm.

I would buy a bunch of non-firearm lowers, for my bolt-action ARs, of course.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:21:17 PM EDT
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They are saying this because it's bolt action. The real reason is they don't want cheap, readily available imports.
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MAGA. If you can’t tarrif the fuck out of it, just regulate it out of existence.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:21:23 PM EDT
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This fits the XMG ruling, abet it is still bullshit.

I can see this as a way to clamp down on Glock 80s, since you can probably fire a glock slide like a zip gun by holding the safety plunger up and pulling the striker back by hand.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:22:45 PM EDT
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The upper has always been the serialized part, ("the firearm") on Ruger MKxxx pistols.

Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:23:42 PM EDT
[#11]
Um, reading sounds like the design presented to them functions awfully close to a bolt gun
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:24:40 PM EDT
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Trump better put a stop to this.
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Same Trump that due proccess second and have to be 21 to buy a firearm, ok.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:28:55 PM EDT
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What if they apply the same logic to sxs or o/u shotguns. Suddenly your Beretta Silver pigeon need a registered firearm approval if you want to swap from a 12ga to 20ga to shoot skeet.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:30:44 PM EDT
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I see that the Trumps haven't run all the dumbasses out of the ATF.
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The second amendment coalition will get right on that!
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:31:50 PM EDT
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Non-issue.
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Umm, mike?  How many bolts do you have for your AR uppers?
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:33:40 PM EDT
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Um, reading sounds like the design presented to them functions awfully close to a bolt gun
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except the trigger is in the lower receiver, not attached to the upper receiver.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:35:11 PM EDT
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It’s ok, Trump is the ATFs boss now

He won’t let them do it
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:36:58 PM EDT
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This fits the XMG ruling, abet it is still bullshit.

I can see this as a way to clamp down on Glock 80s, since you can probably fire a glock slide like a zip gun by holding the safety plunger up and pulling the striker back by hand.
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BRB, gonna test this.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:37:22 PM EDT
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My understanding is that this was already the case in certain circumstances.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:39:19 PM EDT
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If you want to try and make sense of what the ATF is thinking, you have to have someone hit you in the head with a 2x4 as hard as they can first
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:47:12 PM EDT
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But it looks like the key is that the upper is bolt action.
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Well, I see there point with the 50 cal upper but they can easily bend that to any caliber upper.  so.....FTATF
But it looks like the key is that the upper is bolt action.
Can it be fired without a lower.  No different than a semi upper really, other than it is held shut with a bolt handle.

A semi upper with the gas system shut off would be similar.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:48:24 PM EDT
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers.
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Yet...

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You know, I dont even know why I try... At three pages, someone obviously already beat me to it...
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:53:49 PM EDT
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Yeah, that bridge was crossed millions of miles ago.
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Lol!  How many unserialized AR uppers are out there?  Yeah, that'll work...
Yeah, that bridge was crossed millions of miles ago.
Maybe they are worried about the ghost gun 3d printed lowers...need something to be registered...
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:56:03 PM EDT
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Fine, Ill just buy a M107 instead....
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 1:59:25 PM EDT
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Did NRA come up with this nonsense?
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:01:45 PM EDT
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That part of a firearm which provides housing for the hammer, bolt or breechblock, and firing mechanism, and which is usually threaded at its forward portion to receive the barrel. 27 CFR § 478.11.
I think this is where the AR screws with the law. The hammer and the firing mechanism are in the lower receiver while all the other associated parts are in the lower receiver.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:02:27 PM EDT
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And the thread title says, “ATF opening the door to labeling AR uppers firearms.”

If bolt actions traditionally serialized the action, can’t they say semi autos “traditionally” do same? That same standard can be applied to M1 Garand, SKS, FAL, AK47, and any other number of rifles that pre-date the AR platform and serialized the portion of the rifle that contains the action/bolt/barrel extension. This is a bullshit letter and SHTF needs to contest this finding vigorously.
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The FAL upper receiver is the serialized part and requires a transfer by FFL.  The FAL lower doesn't require transfer by an FFL.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:03:24 PM EDT
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The only part that matters is what part contains the FCG.
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Except for FALs
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:04:14 PM EDT
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So I need two firearms to build my firearm?
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this ??????
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:04:18 PM EDT
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So, a bolt action upper contains a bolt, a handle to retract the bolt, and threads to screw the barrel on to. And this is different from a normal AR how?
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This.  This right here.  This is the slippery slope, for all those who say it's a non-issue.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:06:17 PM EDT
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I wonder how this effects people who have an upper on order with Safety Harbor.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:23:07 PM EDT
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This isn't even the first time they've done this, they ruled the BRP XMG upper was also a firearm in and of itself. This made it legal to use on a standard semi auto lower but illegal to use on a transferable M16 lower.
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Came here to say this.

Also yo clarify, originally it was fine on an M16. ATF changed their ruling after i had mine for two years.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:26:55 PM EDT
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really dont care what they think,  give it 6 months, somebody will have an 80 percent upper that can be completed and there thought will be moot
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No offense to you personally, but I hate this fucking attitude.  I shouldn't be forced into some underground, home-brew Khyber Pass bullshit in order to posses something that is perfectly legal to own.  I should be able to buy it off fucking Amazon.

Push back on this type of shit, everywhere, every time.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:31:00 PM EDT
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Looks like my blowback .22 upper will fall into this after looking at the wording
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:37:18 PM EDT
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So I need two firearms to build my firearm?
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Lol
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:39:17 PM EDT
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It’s a good thing the ATF has no legislative power, and any attempt to further undermine the Constitution while infringing upon inalienable rights should be treated as an act of sedition. Fuck all of our three letter agencies and their anti-american rhetoric. Maybe POTUS will wake up and realize it’s time to hit the reset button on this snakes.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:41:17 PM EDT
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so the upper on a traditional AR  is a straight pull bolt.action without a gas port drilled or an adjustable gas block off position.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:49:51 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/30/2018 2:51:12 PM EDT
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers.
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What AR has an upper receiver that doesn't house the bolt and barrel?
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:01:18 PM EDT
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Where do I order my 80% upper?

F**king ATF.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:05:54 PM EDT
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Trump better put a stop to this.
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What exactly has Trump....or even the Republican majority....done to help gun owners recently?
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:08:58 PM EDT
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The only part that matters is what part contains the FCG.
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers.
The only part that matters is what part contains the FCG.
Then explain the FNFAL platform?
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:11:40 PM EDT
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Unless i missed something it's no different from a bolt action .22 in that where the manually actuated bolt rides is a receiver.

As much as it pains me to admit it I'm thinking that the FATF is correct in this instance.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:12:59 PM EDT
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ITT: People that don’t bother to read.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:13:19 PM EDT
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Next thing you know they will want to serialize bullets.
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Oh, don't be silly.  They will never do that.  They will implement the "sensible" gun control by requiring micro-stamping firing pins like here in CA.  It is a defacto gun-ban.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:13:58 PM EDT
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Who in the wide wide world of sports wrote a letter to the ATF?
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:17:28 PM EDT
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First post....

The nailing...

It happened.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:18:50 PM EDT
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So before everyone reads the thread title and panics, the letter basically states that the ATF considers the reciever ON A BOLT ACTION to be the part which houses the bolt and barrel. This does not affect 99% of AR uppers.
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HOW ABOUT NO!

This nit picking about absolute bs to construe and infringe on our 2nd Amendment rights is absolutely disgusting and insulting. It is the very definition of infringement. So how about NO!

It's time to shut the ATF down and give their actual responsibilities to a body that won't abuse them like they do. They aren't law enforcement, they think they are law makers. So wrong.
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:19:26 PM EDT
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@backbencher this would also apply to 5.7 uppers and the Lyndon, no?
Link Posted: 7/30/2018 3:19:31 PM EDT
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Who in the wide wide world of sports wrote a letter to the ATF?
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A concerned "gun owner" on a popular internet forum no doubt....  
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