Well this looks like a solution that should catch on if problems arise

[srad]

Hmm. The '68 GCA provides for a couple of positives... legal to make your own firearm... without any markings or serial number. Could be a very profitable post ban business (God forbid).

10News - People line up to legally make untraceable guns - Investigations Story

 

[Light]

A ban would ban production of them.

 

[netsecurity]

A ban would ban production of them.

Yes, and illegal gun factories would be treated as meth labs are today.

But this is a reason they should not ban guns, because soon any nitwit criminal can make their own guns and magazines easily with 3d printing, and we need to protect ourselves from them.

 

[Stainer]

See I'm not even thinking post-ban, I would like to build one like this now! Had the shootings not happened and this was the normal $600 AR world still, I would like to do this. The simple fact of watching it go from a chunk of metal to your rifle is cool in my eyes.

 

[SmileDocHill]

So is this something that has to be destroyed when you die since you cannot transfer or sell it? How about passing it down to your kids?
I'm with Stainer, this would be beyond cool to know you made your own lower receiver.

 

[william]

I agree with Stainer...Don't really need another ar but I would line up just to push the button and see it transform. Would also be cool to say I made it

 

[Chr15topher]

Would love to see progress pics if you choose to do this.

 

[SmileDocHill]

I wonder how hard it would be to do it old school with hand tools and well made jigs? It would take a lot longer but be a fun process. You could sell a package deal, a mold to cast aluminum into, and a set of jigs. The cast would get it close and the jigs would be used to fine tune the position and size of all the critical parts. Your cost would be to acquire some aluminum, and the mold/jig package.

 

[CountryBoy19]

I wonder how hard it would be to do it old school with hand tools and well made jigs? It would take a lot longer but be a fun process. You could sell a package deal, a mold to cast aluminum into, and a set of jigs. The cast would get it close and the jigs would be used to fine tune the position and size of all the critical parts. Your cost would be to acquire some aluminum, and the mold/jig package.

Would be better off just selling a chunk of AL bar stock. Casting aluminum is not a process for the home-tinkerer, and cast AR receivers are typically of lower quality even when cast in a professional facility.

There is already a whole market around this. You can buy receiver forgings and machine them yourself. You can buy 80% receivers (it doesn't become a firearm until more than 80% of the machine work is completed) and just do the last few operations. It still takes expensive machinery in your garage to do it.

 

[DanVoils]

I wonder how hard it would be to do it old school with hand tools and well made jigs? It would take a lot longer but be a fun process. You could sell a package deal, a mold to cast aluminum into, and a set of jigs. The cast would get it close and the jigs would be used to fine tune the position and size of all the critical parts. Your cost would be to acquire some aluminum, and the mold/jig package.

It's doable but it would depend on the level of expertise and intelligence of the craftsman.

 

[DanVoils]

So is this something that has to be destroyed when you die since you cannot transfer or sell it? How about passing it down to your kids?
I'm with Stainer, this would be beyond cool to know you made your own lower receiver.

My understanding is that it can remain within your lineage and willed to a direct descendant.

 

[bberg]

There are a couple of posts in the long gun section talking about 80% lowers. along with links to companies selling them.

 

[HavokCycle]

3D printers will change this.

 

[rockhopper46038]

What would sell would be an 80% lower packaged with an SD card pre-loaded with the tool paths and tool changes for use on a Haas or Clausing multi-axis mill. I bet most of us know someone who could get us access to a mill afterhours for long enough to crank one out.

 

[HavokCycle]

What would sell would be an 80% lower packaged with an SD card pre-loaded with the tool paths and tool changes for use on a Haas or Clausing multi-axis mill. I bet most of us know someone who could get us access to a mill afterhours for long enough to crank one out.

3-5 in a federal pound me in the ass prison.

 

[38special]

3-5 in a federal pound me in the ass prison.

Why? The 80% is not illegal to sell or own. The information on how to manufacture is not illegal to sell or own.

As long as you manufacture your own and don't have someone else do it for you, it's legal.