Posted on 09/24/2019 6:44:22 AM PDT by Black_Rifle_Gunsmith
New York state Attorney General Latitia James just told 16 different websites and gun makers to stop selling receiver blanks and gun-making kits to residents of New York. James' office put out the letter with some excerpts that are pretty damning for the Second Amendment:
"Your website offers unfinished lower receivers that require simple milling in order to manufacture unregistered and unserialized assault weapons, despite the fact that such manufacture and possession are illegal in New York. Assault weapons are illegal in New York, and the sale and/or advertisement of these products violates New York law. I hereby demand that you stop the sale and advertisement to residents of New York of unfinished lower receivers and firearms components that are intended for the assembly of assault weapons.”
Specifically, the cease-and-desist order targets the 80% lower, an unfinished aluminum or polymer firearm receiver that requires extra work - some cutting and drilling with power tools - to be made functional. These receiver blanks are combined with special build kits that include a prebuilt AR-15 upper receiver, lower parts kit, buffer, handguard, trigger, and everything required to assemble your rifle, pistol, or SBR.
Interestingly, the cease-and-desist order makes some claims that likely rest on shaky legal ground. A.G. James claims that receiver blanks are used to only build assault weapons. In fact, the tone and language of the letter seems to imply that any finished receiver blank should be considered an assault weapon. Yet even a finished 80% lower is simply a stripped lower receiver, a generic firearm with no features. It doesn't have any of the parts described in the letter ("... at least one of several enumerated secondary characteristics, including a pistol grip or a stock that folds, telescopes, or bears a thumbhole") that would allow any state or federal law to define the receiver, the firearm itself, as an assault weapon.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 has long held that building a gun at home without a license is perfectly legal. One doesn't need an FFL, background check, or any paperwork. The ATF has clarified this very practice is legal, even when building an AR-15 using an 80% lower receiver. This cease-and-desist order is likely inspired by federal bill H. R. 7115, which attempts to ban gun-making kits and receiver blanks nationally. On its heels is yet another federal assault weapons ban introduced in February, H. R. 1296. The bill is currently short by seven co-sponsoring Democrats. A heavy legal battle is likely to ensue in New York and in the House, especially as we near election season proper. The situation in New York is breaking and developing. New information will be provided as companies and manufacturers respond to these over-zealous demands.
Anything thought up by progressives will not work.
Law of the multiverse.
Dumb*sses build dumb laws.
Which, of course, will NOT be obeyed.
Chuckle...
“Latitia James”.... yeah... I’m gonna obey THAT, sure...
Nothing less than this will cause these scum to take the 2nd Amendment seriously.
Why spend money on a legal battle? What she’s requesting isn’t enforceable anyway...
new york lets rapists, murderers and pedophiles
walk free (even sitting on the evidence for YEARS).
so what/who is left to arrest?
those who defend themselves or the Elected President.
A law doing that goes into effect October 1st here in Connecticut. Strangely, with all the unconstitutional gun laws this state has the local news is still filled with shootings every day.
Too Bad we don’t have a US Attorney’s Office in New York, otherwise he and his buddies would be facing serious prison time for “Conspiracy Against Rights”
“...Nothing less than this will cause these scum to take the 2nd Amendment seriously. ...”
Oh, the Left takes it seriously, all right. That’s EXACTLY WHY they’re trying to ban YOU from having fighting guns that can stop them.
They know damn right well - I’d say even more so than ordinary Joe Working Guy - what the 2nd Amendment is about.
This will stop only when they can kill you for having the knowledge to build a firearm... For the children. (The one’s they don’t murder in the womb)
An 80% receiver is otherwise known as a paperweight. It is a hunk of metal with no particular function. Even the ATF has ruled these to NOT be firearms (though a finished, or 100%, receiver is technically a firearm). The only federal restrictions on self-made 100% receivers are that you cannot make one (or 50) with the intent (at that time) to sell them to others. They suggest that you serial number the receiver, in case your firearm is stolen, so that you can get it back if it is recovered.
People have been making firearms for their own use for literally centuries in this country - so if people continue to do this then they are not doing anything unusual or illegal.
Hey Latitty, they’re called semi-automatic rifles, you dumb ass gun grabber!
Time to cordon off NY and CA from the rest of us.
Just sell them in New Jersey.................
Net effect: When people hear about this, sales of unfinished receivers will skyrocket.
“Strangely, with all the unconstitutional gun laws this state has the local news is still filled with shootings every day.”
Clearly that shows the need for way more unconstitutional gun-control laws! Plus adjacent states also need the same laws enacted.
You can always tell if there aren’t enough unconstitutional gun-control laws on the books if there are still shootings. /s
Don’t give ‘em an inch, just need .308” to change their minds.
“they’re called semi-automatic rifles, “
No they aren’t. Even a 100% lower isn’t semi automatic. Some people make bolt action uppers.
Half a million dollar fine and ten years in prison.
DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law
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