pastera
NES Member
Concur - you can construct and possess a personally made firearm lacking a serialization but no business can offer one for sale.Lots of articles out there, and I've been reading them. It appears to still be legal at the federal level to finish an 80%, it's a "PMF", privately manufactured firearm. I think that serializing only becomes necessary if the firearm goes into an FFL's inventory. Which could happen if you were having it ceracoated for example. Because the process requires the FFL to have posession of the firearm for more than a day, and thus it has to go into his bound book.
Companies such as P80 have been forced to separate the bundling of 80% frames and the jigs to complete them - as the ATF has managed to declare that a "firearm". <spit>
But I don't think the same applies to my garage. I think I can have 80% frames and jigs in the same location without constructive posession applying.
If anyone's got links to articles stating otherwise - I'd like to see them please.
That's the ATFs position - the dealer is constructively possessing and offering for sale an unserialized frame when selling an 80% concurrent with a jig or kit.
What the ATF has publicized is the change makes 80% illegal without a serial, which is pandering and relying on the fact that very few people read past the headline and essentially none actually research any and all citations.