question for the gunsmiths

**indy_Muaddib** · November 25, 2006, 23:55

if you are working on a firearm and since the dems have congress now if that firearm is banned can you send the part back with the work completed or would that be illegal on your part?

ravenrob · November 26, 2006, 07:51

Tough question. As we are not the owners of the firearm, we have no right to keep it. On the other hand, if the firearm gets outright banned from posession, we would be commiting a crime by posessing it or sending it back to the owner. Every firearm that we work on must be logged into a bound book (that is why we need an FFL to be a gunsmith). So, if the ATF comes in and checks our books, they will know what we worked on, when we worked on it and who the work was for. We cannot hide anything. If it was in our posession when the ban went into effect and we didn't contact them, we could be looking at the possibillity of losing our lisence, fines and jail time.

Our only way out would be to contact the ATF first and tell them what we have. I know that statement won't make me any friends, but if it came down to protecting a customer's gun or keeping myself out of jail and keeping my business, the customer's gun would lose. I guess this is yet another reason I got out of the business.

diana-ar15 · November 26, 2006, 15:38

a really hypothetical question that currently doesn't mean anything. they have yet to make such a law .. and if/when they do it will be then that such specific clauses that you seek information to will be decided

November 25, 2006, 23:55	#1
indy_Muaddib Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 17581 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Tampa FL Posts: 3,046	question for the gunsmiths if you are working on a firearm and since the dems have congress now if that firearm is banned can you send the part back with the work completed or would that be illegal on your part? __________________ All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are. -H.L. Mencken 1919 Were not that lucky.

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November 26, 2006, 07:51	#2
ravenrob Registered FALaholic #: 21546 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 8	Tough question. As we are not the owners of the firearm, we have no right to keep it. On the other hand, if the firearm gets outright banned from posession, we would be commiting a crime by posessing it or sending it back to the owner. Every firearm that we work on must be logged into a bound book (that is why we need an FFL to be a gunsmith). So, if the ATF comes in and checks our books, they will know what we worked on, when we worked on it and who the work was for. We cannot hide anything. If it was in our posession when the ban went into effect and we didn't contact them, we could be looking at the possibillity of losing our lisence, fines and jail time. Our only way out would be to contact the ATF first and tell them what we have. I know that statement won't make me any friends, but if it came down to protecting a customer's gun or keeping myself out of jail and keeping my business, the customer's gun would lose. I guess this is yet another reason I got out of the business.

November 26, 2006, 15:38	#3
diana-ar15 Registered FALaholic #: 20694 Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 578	a really hypothetical question that currently doesn't mean anything. they have yet to make such a law .. and if/when they do it will be then that such specific clauses that you seek information to will be decided