Posted on 08/12/2016 5:52:51 PM PDT by paltz
Gunsmiths around the country say they were blindsided by President Obama’s latest executive order that would make their trade qualify as manufacturing and therefore eligible for all the mandated regulations and fees that go along with that classification.
“When you have expanded the definition of manufacturing to include enhancements and the function of the weapon, you are basically opening the door to everything you do would make you a manufacturer,” Iowa gunsmith Mike Ware told The Daily Caller.
The president’s executive order, which Obama signed on July 22 — around the beginning of the Democratic National Convention — conveys to the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), which is primarily in charge of managing the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and establishing its rules, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
DDTC now names commercial gunsmiths as “manufacturers” for relatively simple tasks as threading a barrel or duplicating a small custom part for an older firearm.
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This would mean that auto repair shops would be considered manufacturers too and should be subject to the same regulations, otherwise this is a bill of attainder and invalid on its face.
Ignore it.
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They are making it so that it is hard to run a legitimate (in the eyes of fed gov) gun smithing/selling biz, so that they drive it underground and then can close down people there and jail them in technicalities...
Reminds me of how they got Randy Weaver...
THIS IS TYRANNY! PURE AND EVIL, TYRANNY....
>>Reminds me of how they got Randy Weaver...
Up until Randy Weaver, I had full faith and trust in the US government. I have not trusted it since.
[ >>Reminds me of how they got Randy Weaver...
Up until Randy Weaver, I had full faith and trust in the US government. I have not trusted it since. ]
The more “Regulations” that UN-Elected bureaucrats create in DC the more w3ays they can “Weaver” us all...
Yep. Don’t obey the demon on earth.
I did hear about this. This is how they will get rid of the second amendment. Through choking off the supply of non managed parts. Ammo is next.
Liberals cannot regulate knowledge.
Unless the customer is from out of state this is not “interstate trade” and should be completely exempt from any federal regulations. It is time to role back FDR’s expansion of the role of the federal government.
Taking advantage of the lack of 2nd Amendment protection for the right to make or repair arms, just to keep and bear them.
500 year old technology bump for later....
part of owning and having anything is being able’to maintain and repair it.
cars, tools, appliances, houses, etc.
>>The more “Regulations” that UN-Elected bureaucrats create in DC the more w3ays they can “Weaver” us all...
Yep. As Ayn Rand points out in Atlas Shrugged, these laws aren’t designed to control crime. They are designed to make everyday life into a criminal act that can be acted upon by the government whenever they want to.
Once again, crickets chirping on the Republican side of the aisle.....
You would think so, but the drug war whores gave us Raich, which voided that concept.
FWIW-
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
If you were the Islamoterrorists, what would be the first thing you would like to do before taking on the Americans?
In Japan, tatoos are becoming popular among the younger generation. The govt doesn’t approve.
In response to this the govt is now requiring that all tatoo artists have medical degrees.
Seems to be a common thread among nwo nations. Attack the small business owner.
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