When an AR-15 is not a Firearm

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/us/ex...-15/index.html

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In his 23 years with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Dan O'Kelly was one of the agency's top gun experts.....As O'Kelly sees it, the ATF has been deliberately misinterpreting a key gun control regulation for decades because officials fear that following the letter of the law would allow criminals to build AR-15s and other firearms piece by piece with unregulated parts.

https://atf-eregs.18f.gov/478-11/201...11-p1909909317

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Firearm frame or receiver. That part of a firearm which provides housing for the hammer, bolt or breechblock, and firing mechanism, and which is usually threaded at its forward portion to receive the barrel.

I've always tried to keep up with the law and how it changes. But this little detail has up till now escaped me.

The typical AR-15 lower receiver is the single part controlled as a firearm unless it also contains an auto-sear to make it a machine gun. The AR-15 lower receiver contains the hammer and firing mechanism. The upper receiver that attaches with two small steel pins contains the bolt as well as the threads that the barrel nut mates with.

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In December, a federal judge in Ohio dismissed weapons-related charges against two men after O'Kelly testified that the AR-15 part at issue in their case was not subject to federal law or regulation. US District Court Judge James G. Carr for the Northern District of Ohio called the ATF's long-standing interpretation of the regulation "unreasonable and legally unacceptable."

None of the gun stores I've dealt with are likely to sell AR-15 lower receivers as gun parts vs actual guns.

Ranb

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