The end of 80% lowers?

While I wait for my meds to fully kick in so I can go to sleep, I'm checking through the various boards I'm on, and I run across this.


ATF Issues First Ruling of the New Year – Is It The End Of 80% Lowers?

The explanation given by someone is as follows:

"When you let someone else make an 80% lower into a completed lower and they walk off your property, you have distributed a firearm manufactured on your equipment that you control, and therefore you need a gun manufacturing license and to mark the "gun" with maker and serial number, keeping the appropriate records and you have committed a felony buy manufacturing the gun before obtaining the aforementioned... and you did not get a background check on said individual... another felony..."


This is the first I've seen of this, so forgive me if you already are familiar with this.

One of the other folks on the board who is a Manufacturer stated that all of this came about because of Ares Arms trying to circumvent the "Manufacture" clause. The gist is, Areas submitted a 80% receiver with 1 (ONE) hole drilled and ATF decided that receiver with THAT ONE HOLE DRILLED was a firearm. So Ares came back with they "Sell the Receiver" to someone, then the "Owner Drills the ONE Hole", then they bring it back to Ares to finish the milling. Hence ATF decision in that TOP link.

This is also to stop people from pooling their money together to buy a "Ghost Gunner" Mill and having a Milling party, where people bring their own 80% receivers, and put them in the mill and hit enter.

As more and more regulations are written, soon everything not expressly authorized is illegal.

How long before we need to pay an "Air Tax" such as in "Birth of Fire"?

Mark One Bounty - Defense Distributed

Companies like to pile on Defense Distributed, like we don't all know how this story ends. The most recent is a company called Mark Forged in Cambridg Like   Tweet   Companies like to pile on Defense Distributed, like we don't all know how this story ends. The most recent is a company called Mark Forged in Cambridge that sells a carbon fiber 3D printer called the Mark One. The Mark One I bought this printer a year ago and waited that long for them to decide they didn't want to sell it to me after all. Before the weekend they returned the money and told me due to business risks they wouldn't sell it to me. Now Wired has the story and the company has invented some new terms of use to preclude DD from using the device at all. Yet another of our bad faith dealings with White Liberals for NATO. On YouTube But in all seriousness, I'm going to get this printer. And, as I told them, I'm going to print a gun with it. These hurried attempts by almost everyone in polite society to impede my company in its purpose are efforts of last resort. Last hope attempts at diverting this world from its final conditions. I will pay $15,000 to the first person who can get me the Mark One printer. email me at crw at defdist.org if you can help. crw ©2015 Defense Distributed | Austin, TX Web Version   Forward   Unsubscribe   Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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State Department order Defense Distributed to remove "Liberator Pistol" CAD file

from the web.

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For more info go to The Gateway Pundit:


State Department Orders IT Group to Remove Blueprints for Liberator 3D Printable Gun

UTD 1A Project Update

Defense Distributed has updated their Mega Pack.

The Torrent Link for the newest package of 3D Printing Files is: Mega_pack_3.3 (Beatty) 02/09/2013

I am still working on getting the other files I have, the ones that are specific to CNC and other types of building, cleaned up and ordered so I can zip them up and upload them to one of my Cloud files storage areas.

When I have them uploaded I will update and post the link.

Over Reaction once the cat is out of the bag

With the advent of new printing technologies, the government and several of it's agencies are struggling to play catch up.


"Report: 3D-printed handgun project faces setback with revoked printer lease

Wired reports 3D printer manufacturer Stratasys has nullified a lease agreement with Defense Distributed.

When I last spoke with Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed had just met its $20,000 funding goal, and he had taken delivery of his Stratasys uPrint SE 3D printer. Fast forward nine days and the outlook for his 3D printed firearm project looks less positive."

Once again the government in this case the BATFEIEIO is trying to change the rules in mid game.  Making something LEGAL, ILLEGAL.  In order to prohibit a legal exercise of our rights and freedoms.  How many more times are we going to put up with the ham handed, questionable  actions of the an out of control federal agency, whose utility and need is under question itself?

H/t Divemedic