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There is no federal 4+ guideline. That is a state thing.This is deeply concerning.
Check me on this. I can dispose of any stripped lowers that I might or might not have with no paper trail, right?--just so as not to run afoul of any pending legislation?
If I got rid of 4 before January 1st with no bill of sale to any random homeless dude, I could still get rid of 4 AFTER January 1st and still be within Federal 4-per-year guidelines for limitations on private sales--correct?
Federal uses a fuzzy line for "acting as an unlicensed dealer". For example, if you received dozens of test and evaluation guns for writing magazine articles, bought them via an FFL as a dealer, and regularly posted them in an Indiana firearms forum selling them new to the tune of tens of guns a year, you would probably be acting as an unlicensed dealer. Worse if the forum admin admin resurrected your removed for sale posts after you tried to bury the info and people started talking about it on Instagram .
If it doubtful the feds could consider you an unlicensed dealer and there was no indication you were buying these to sell as an individual.
The state considers >4 private sales per year to be acting as a dealer, but that is for firearms, rifles and shotguns - stripped lowers are none of these under MA law; iffy for built out AR lowers.
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