Frames and receivers usually (but not always) include the firearm serial number and are usually considered to be the regulated component of a firearm. Firearm frame or receiver is the 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.Firearm means any device, including a starter gun, which will, or is designed to, or may readily be converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive the frame or receiver of any such weapon any firearm muffler or firearm silencer or any destructive device but the term shall not include antique firearms (except antique firearms meeting the description of a handgun or of a firearm capable of being concealed on a person).USPS Marketing Mail Eligibility Decision TreeĤ3 Firearms 431 Definitions 431.1 Firearm.Designing Letter and Reply Mail (PUB 25).The ATF also doesn't require a serial number, registration, or any other paperwork, though some states might.ĭownside is, selling or giving away anything you've made falls into a gray area the ATF has repeatedly refused to clarify most homebuilders interpret that as "here be dragons" and avoid the issue to keep from being a "test case. There's no Federal restriction on making your own receivers or guns for your own use, other than that they be otherwise legal. though at some point, it's close enough that a nonfunctional semimachined receiver may be considered functional, and therefore a receiver by the ATF. To the ATF, it's either a receiver or it's not. That's not a legal definition, just marketing. You can also buy semi-machined lowers, often referred to as "60%" or "80%".
Over on, a builder did one out of sheet steel. Various people have whittled AR lowers from one or more pieces of aluminum. You can buy unmachined forgings or castings without restriction. This is not a ploy to circumvent the law so no need for the safety police or Chicken Little types to panic and start running in circles.
The seller used the serial number on the bolt for his logbook.Īnybody know the legalities of such a critter? My FFL thinks it'll get seized by the ATF. 22's and shotguns that also did not carry a serial number prior to that time. I would think that being manufactured and modified prior to 1968, then it should probably be treated just like any of those cheap. This was never disclosed in the auction listing and my local FFL freaked out when he saw it. It was all professionally done and if you didn't know any better, you'd think it was never there. All the markings, except the 7,9 on the barrel, have been removed. At which point serial numbers became a legal requirement. My theory is that it was sporterized and imported to the US prior to the Gun Control Act of 1968. I have run into a snag with a very professionally done, sporterized military Mauser 98 I found on Gunbroker.
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