1. IL just jammed through a ‘ghost gun’ bill in the middle of the night. It was so badly written, even the authors admitted it will be challenged and likely defeated in the courts but they passed it anyway. And criminals will just ignore it.

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2. Unfortunately for them, US law defines a firearm based on the functioning part known as the receiver or frame. These parts, while not simple to make, always have a point at which they are not a firearm. At what point does the government start demanding that a hunk of aluminum coming out of a foundry be tracked as a firearm?

   In Europe they track the pressure bearing parts of a firearm as the firearm. The barrel, bolt, and chamber if I got things right.

   And at this point I find it much easier to make a good receiver from hunks of metal than to make a good barrel.

   Though it would not surprise me to someday be able to buy a “thick walled tube” that has exactly the right bore diameter to be rifled. It also begs the question of where do they put the serial number on a barrel blank? If I take a barrel blank and turn it down, the serial number will be removed.

   Ok, this is a stupid game to play and I don’t want to play it. They can’t stop the signal all they can do is mess things up.

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3. Having read the proposed rule (full IANAL notice in effect here), I do not see it as standing. The rule uses a lot of terms that are not defined. What does “readily” mean? As in “can be readily converted to a firearm.” Not defined, and if challenged, the ATF will lose in court.
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   However, it has to make it to a court, and until then, the 80% dealers will have to abide by the rule, or get shutdown.

   1. The government goes by the Humpty Dumpty school of English: “When I use a word it means exactly what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less”.

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