Assembling an AR lower into a rifle is ILLEGAL!!!

[VUPDblue]

Got this from another forum. Evidently a gun shop in Texas has these signs proudly displayed

 

[ihateiraq]

you learn something new every day.

 

[3gunshooter]

What do you do with it then.

 

[VUPDblue]

Looks like it's a good thing the Feds didn't get wind of the INGO AR build parties

 

[theweakerbrother]

They did. I'm a plant. You're all going to jail!

 

[VUPDblue]

 

[techres]

How much do you want to bet that shop has a service for assembling your lower by an "ATF approved" store employee?

That would be my guess...

 

[PatriotPride]

How much do you want to bet that shop has a service for assembling your lower by an "ATF approved" store employee?

That would be my guess...

Mine too...something about "a sucker born every minute"

 

[UncleMike]

Since the lower receiver is the "Firearm" part of an AR 15 according to BATFE, and must be serial numbered, and sold as though it were a complete firearm, it doesn't make any difference what gets added to it after the sale as long as it isn't made into an SBR or a full auto firearm.
Texas may have some weird law that makes it illegal to assemble a complete firearm from a lower receiver but I kinda doubt it.
I have several friends there who routinely assemble complete AR's on lowers.

Mike

 

[ThrottleJockey]

If not on a lower receiver, what WOULD one assemble a rifle from? Perhaps this was some sort of local ordinance?

 

[Snayperskaya]

Maybe it is supposed to be used as a crossbow?

 

[dieselman]

can i assemble it into a pistol?

 

[Bill of Rights]

Three word answer as to those signs:

Cite the law.

If they can't do that, I'd cheerfully tell them what to do with a load of sand.

Sadly, there's a local version of "Don's Guns" just about everywhere.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[infidel]

KIRK!!!!

 

[IndyMonkey]

It says it on a sticker, must be true.

 

[djjdnap]

lol, maybe they meant " It isn't not legal"? lol

 

[DaKruiser]

Three word answer as to those signs:

Cite the law.

If they can't do that, I'd cheerfully tell them what to do with a load of sand.

Sadly, there's a local version of "Don's Guns" just about everywhere.

Blessings,
Bill

There's a dons guns in Indiana.

 

[baldmax]

I would not expect that from Texas.

 

[VUPDblue]

The OP on the other forum said that there is no such local or state ordinance prohibiting such things. He said that the shop is (was) a good shop and is just horribly misguided as to the law.

 

[MattCFII]

Actually if you dig deeper in that thread and another where the shop explains itself since they are a supporter of that site (that I don't really go to that site much, saw the link on a blog), the supposed reason for the sign is that the BATFE is strong arming a lot of the shops in the Texas border area to put up those signs and again it is in how BATFE has a tendency to interpret law differently as it needs.

I haven't followed the threads much further to get how they read the law to do that and if any other shops have actually put up the signs. The BATFE in the past has used similar reading to limit FAL receivers importation as replacement only parts.