The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Firearms Technology Branch has deemed “Chore Boy copper cleaning pads, along with fiberglass insulation,” a firearm, subject to registration and a $200 transfer tax, an official letter obtained recently by Gun Rights Examiner reveals. The response to an attorney inquiry by John R. Spencer, Chief, Firearms Technology Branch, offers one of the more creatively restrictive assessments since ATF declared a shoestring to be a machinegun.
Next they will want to register pipe and fittings, after all they may be used to make pipe bombs. Maybe the DEA should check their evidence rooms in case the ATF has been removing some product for their own use.
From the point of view of the government no law is stupid.
If for example I want to bring you in but you refuse to comply because you do not want to talk? It would be stupid on the part of the government not to have a seldom used law on the books which could be used to force compliance now wouldn't it?
Trust me. We will only use these seemingly stupid laws when absolutely necessary to force your compliance. If you people would cooperate we wouldn't need to invent crimes!
BTW: You do know that the stuff under your kitchen sink is bomb making materials and not cleaning supplies didn't you?
Indeed. They are not declaring those items firearms. They are only saying that you may not use them to
do your own repair of a silencer.
Sort of stupid; but heck---- you are talking Tax Man here. Its about the 200 bucks, not about the
other stuff. They'd tax potatoes if they could figure out how to do it.
Actually this stuff is the best thing for gun owners because it makes the bureau look like complete idiots, next we will find out about "Fast and furious III" where they get strawmen to go into grocery stores to buy pot scrubbers.
That's not the whole story though. Although legally they couldnt do the repair themselves,
all one would have to do is send it back to the factory or any 07/02 for repair and unless they were replacing the serialized part, it wouldn't be subject ot the 200$ Tax.
Retarded, I can replace every part inside the receiver of my AR and no problem; yet somehow this is an issue why? ...nevermind Hotguns provided the answer:
Thats what happens when you appoint tyrants and throw common sense out the window.
So If somebody crams chore boy in a glass tube hereafter called a "crack pipe"under the ATF's ruling would they then be smoking crack thru an Illegal silencer
The ATF needs to be abolished, along with all authorities it currently has. This agency has done nothing to make Americans any safer, but has gone a long way towards criminalizing harmless behavior and stripping us of our freedoms.
Never underestimate the creativity of the tax man. They don't give a hoot about possession of the repair material; they want a second shot (pun not intended) at collecting the tax.
Think of it like this. You buy a car and pay sales tax on it. You bring it in to get it repaired and you pay (in some states) sales tax on the replacement part and on the labor, and maybe on some supposed increased retail value of the vehicle at license plate renewal time. That's what's going on here; just coming up with inventive ways to scrape up a few 200 dollar donations.
Meanwhile, quick, bury that stuff from beneath the sink in your neighbor's yard.
Yeah, GM, I'm speechless too. Dare I admit that I replaced some insulation behind my shower three years ago; and hid a piece of it from prying eyes.
people that owned a legal suppressor(meaning that they had the tax stamp) never could repair or replace any of it themselves.
It's always been that way. For the archaic designs out there that still use steel wool to stifle the sound, the ATF has added it to its list of prohibited materials so... in the event that you wanted to change out your old,ratty,filthy,burned out steel wool with some bright new shiny stuff, you would be in violation of the law if you did it without paying the 200 fee over. This means that if you were brought up on charges of illegal possession or repair that this is one of the items on the prohibited list, the same list that has a shoelace listed as a "machine gun" because someone used one to make a gun fire full auto.
Yeah...it sucks...but thats the way it is in the land of the Big Feds with the small minds.
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