Help the Gunsmith Fight Over-Regulation

Should gunsmithing be less regulated?

  • Yes - it's currently over-regulated

    Votes: 12 100.0%
  • No - more regulation is better

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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    12
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Ingrid

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If you care about the future of gunsmithing in America, please read.

My father is a gunsmith in Montana. We know of several gunsmiths who have had difficulty complying with regulations, and have gone out of business.

There are so many new regulations, they are hard to keep up with. There is even a regulation that requires gunsmiths to check for new regulations regularly.

When Obama left office, during his last 4 months, he attempted to push several more regulations. Luckily, the Trump administration nixed most of the last-minute ones. Obama wanted gunsmiths to be classified as not only manufacturures, but also importers of goods.

My father has worked hard to keep the burden of these regulations away from his customers. There is a regulation, however, currently in effect. It requires that any gun repaired by an FFL holder be kept in the 20-year aquesition/disposition book. This means customer's names are listed. If the gunsmith does not keep a list of all customers and their rifle (this pertains to repairs), they are breaking the law.

Further, there is a requirement that any gun leaving the FFL holder's place of work that is on the aquesition/disposition record must either transfer from his aquesition/disposition book to another FFL holder's book, OR the customer must pass a background check before receiving their gun. THIS IS FOR EVERY REPAIR. If a gunsmith does not provide a background check for every repair, he is technically breaking the law. There are exceptions and other regulations that complicate things further.

Gunsmiths can not keep up with these arbitrary regulations. The industry is being targeted severely.

If you care, please take the time to go onto the Accu-Arms Facebook page. Take a look at the petition there.
 
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Please provide a link and understand that many will not have a FB account.
 
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IIRC, it has been the case for quite some time that a gunsmith had to transfer the gun into his record book and then keep a record of who it was he transferred it to. And he had to comply with the laws regarding who he could transfer it to. Probably an unintended consequence of the so called universal background check. I don't think you are going to get any relief on this issue short of changing the federal law. I think you are going to need help from the big boys like the NRA and/or the NSSF to get some relief if it is even possible.

As far as who is considered a manufacturer and/or importer that was a consequence of the the poorly thought out ITAR treaty. I am not sure that you are going to get any relief there either short of changing the ITAR regulations. The ITAR stuff is so absurd that we had to put a lock on a filing cabinet that has drawings in it that are ITAR controlled. I can't tell you want this system does but it is not even remotely a weapon. But it is ITAR controlled. A nearly identical system with the same drawing set but a different drawing number is completely uncontrolled.
 
If you care about the future of gunsmithing in America, please read.

My father is a gunsmith in Montana. We know of several gunsmiths who have had difficulty complying with regulations, and have gone out of business.

There are so many new regulations, they are hard to keep up with. There is even a regulation that requires gunsmiths to check for new regulations regularly.

When Obama left office, during his last 4 months, he attempted to push several more regulations. Luckily, the Trump administration nixed most of the last-minute ones. Obama wanted gunsmiths to be classified as not only manufacturures, but also importers of goods.

My father has worked hard to keep the burden of these regulations away from his customers. There is a regulation, however, currently in effect. It requires that any gun repaired by an FFL holder be kept in the 20-year aquesition/disposition book. This means customer's names are listed. If the gunsmith does not keep a list of all customers and their rifle (this pertains to repairs), they are breaking the law.

Further, there is a requirement that any gun leaving the FFL holder's place of work that is on the aquesition/disposition record must either transfer from his aquesition/disposition book to another FFL holder's book, OR the customer must pass a background check before receiving their gun. THIS IS FOR EVERY REPAIR. If a gunsmith does not provide a background check for every repair, he is technically breaking the law. There are exceptions and other regulations that complicate things further.

Gunsmiths can not keep up with these arbitrary regulations. The industry is being targeted severely.

If you care, please take the time to go onto the Accu-Arms Facebook page. Take a look at the petition there.
The customer has to pass the background check in order to get his or her own gun back?!?!?
 
The customer has to pass the background check in order to get his or her own gun back?!?!?
IIRC, before there was a background check the customer had to be eligible to have a firearm transferred to him. The new rules do not allow for a firearm transfer w/o a background check. I think there are some exemptions though. Not sure what they are.
 
So much wrong in the OP. See Wisco's post above.

We know of several gunsmiths who have had difficulty complying with regulations, and have gone out of business................There are so many new regulations, they are hard to keep up with. There is even a regulation that requires gunsmiths to check for new regulations regularly.................Gunsmiths can not keep up with these arbitrary regulations. The industry is being targeted severely.

Good grief. If one finds it too burdensome to take 30 seconds to put a firearm in the A&D book and another 15 to log it out when the customer picks up, I think he/she has some serious issues that go well beyond dealing with regulation. That's the kind of individual who is too lazy to keep track of things and ends up with firearms in their possession which they have no idea what the status is or who they belong to. Which is precisely the reason these requirements exist.

The only thing that really changed the last few years is what constitutes manufacturing; if one does more "heavy line" gunsmithing, as in substantial alterations or complete builds vs. simple repairs and accessory installations, they need a Type 07 FFL.
 
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