If gubmint gives someone a title and a paycheck, that someone will do what is necessary to justify the title and paycheck.
Is the ambiguity in this story intentional? It sure leaves the reader trying to figure out what actually happened with this “part” meant to convert a “certain type of gun” to work with a “different kind of ammunition,” and what the gubmint did with “a length of chain,” “plastic wires,” and “duct tape” when they got ahold of it. Why the obfuscation?
In business and especially with the gubmint you do not, I repeat, NOT - "DEMAND" - anything. You 'respectfully request' and use phrases like 'with all due respect'.
In my past as a Construction Project Manager and a Chief Estimator (30+ years combined) I've written more than my fair share of 'strong letters' and if I would have used 'demand' in any, I'd have been out the door in a heartbeat when the owner found out.
BTW, as a holder of a Class 03 C&R License I've had communication with the BATF and they've all been positive. Then again, I was respectful and polite. Len Savage can be right as rain here but he's acting like an ignorant knuckle dragging ass by "demanding".
(again, just my opinion.)
While he is at it, he could also ask Louisiana to return the thousands of Katrina-area confiscated weapons to their rightful, legal owners. Or did I see those at a surplus auction last month?
He’ll never see that gun again. Probably ALREADY been melted down.