Yes, and in analogy, denying the ability for those who load/reload ammo should not be denied the ability to purchase pistol/rifle primers.
Congress shut off importing of such from Russia and evidently other places.
Last year, I was lucky and did buy 400 small pistol primers. And I looked hard for them.
A pistol or rifle is useless without ammo.
So the Justice system has to read the mind of the accused in order to determine the "intent" to make a firearm out of a chunk of metal or plastic. Unfortunately, rather than a clear statement on the applicability of the second amendment to the law, we get a ruling on the vagueness of the language, allowing the legislature and governor another try.
Yeah, you know the thing
This argument of “what could be” is similar to the state of compliant or non-compliant AR platforms here in California.
Is a bare AR lower received (with no moving parts) compliant or non-compliant? It “could be” built into a non-compliant configuration. It is in the mind of the beholder.
After the Regulator war of 1770, the British hanged one of the gunsmiths in North Carolina.
People forget about the precursor to the American Revolution.
I have an old fifty year article I tore out of a GUNS AND AMMO magazine years ago.
It dealt with the problem of convicts making their own firearms behind prison walls.
I used to post it on FR, till Photobucket refused to allow me to post them.