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0 pointsrolph3y ago0 comments

this interesting as private manufacture firearm [PMF] can not be for sale or barter, they are to be for own personal use.

it could be said [valid or not] these 3D PMF were manuactured with intent to sell, regardless of business status.

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MichaelCollins3y ago· 2 in thread

It's legal to sell a gun you made yourself, if you didn't make it to sell it. E.g. I make a gun for myself, keep it for long enough to plausibly demonstrate that intent, then later get bored with it and sell it. That's legal. But if I do that a lot, it'll start to seem like I'm making them to sell them and without a license that becomes illegal.

rolphOP3y ago

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license...

if you manufacture, with intent to sell you have to be an FFL.

the nuance is gun buyback, and how that aligns with intent to sell.

MichaelCollins3y ago

Intent to sell is the key bit there. You can sell a gun you made yourself if you didn't make it with the intent to sell it.

In the context of gun buybacks, there is generally some promise of amnesty that prevents enforcement against these illegal gun manufacturers. If they were pulled over on their way to the gun buyback, they could probably be successfully prosecuted.

aksss3y ago

One of the main selling points of gun buyback programs is no-questions-asked amnesty.

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