Bill_Rights
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I was unaware the rules were so "fuzzy". See article from today's The Washington Times newspaper by Chuck Neubauer (below). I think gun designers should all publish their private ruling letters in one central register or blog, so that everybody can see how capricious the federal bureaucrats are. Is that doable?
From: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...s-baffled-by-atf-criteria/?page=all#pagebreak
Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria
Models OK’d on case-by-case basis
By Chuck Neubauer The Washington Times Monday, January 2, 2012
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria.
Despite overseeing an industry that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often unclear, leading to reliance on a secretive system by which firearms manufacturers can submit proposed weapons for testing and find out one at a time whether they comply with the law, critics say....
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