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What’s your interpretation of easy? These types of firearms aren’t cheap. For example, a Barrett .50 BMG M82A1 is like $12,000. No website is going to ship it d

What’s your interpretation of easy? These types of firearms aren’t cheap. For example, a Barrett .50 BMG M82A1 is like $12,000. No website is going to ship it directly to you either. It has to go through an FFL which will perform a background check.

rolph 4y ago
i think you need to be FFL 10 to import destructive devices or build from specific imported parts
- sbierwagen 4y ago
  26 U.S.C. § 5845 (f) For the purposes of the National Firearms Act, the term “Destructive Device” means: (2) Any type of weapon by whatever name known which will, or which may readily be converted to expel a projectile, by the action of an explosive or other propellant, the barrel or barrels of which have a bore greater than one-half inch in diameter.
  - rolph 4y ago
    one half inch is 50 cal or 12.7 mm. [25.4 mm == 1 inch] there was an issue with the desert eagle as a 50 cal weapon, at time considered a DD, so there was a revision for civilian carry that was, 49.5 cal with a tapered chamber. if bored out to a true 50 cal, it would constitute production of a DD i think i was looking at the 20mm cannon as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957960 but posted over here.
  - kragen 4y ago
    This is bad news for those Nerf guns that shoot large balls of plastic foam with lightly compressed air. (Or is compressed air excluded from "other propellant"?)
    - sbierwagen 4y ago
      >The term “destructive device” shall not include any device which is neither designed nor redesigned for use as a weapon; any device, although originally designed for use as a weapon, which is redesigned for use as a signaling, pyrotechnic, line throwing, safety, or similar device; surplus ordnance sold, loaned, or given by the Secretary of the Army pursuant to the provisions of section 7684(2), 7685, or 7686 of title 10, United States Code; or any other device which the Secretary finds is not likely to be used as a weapon, or is an antique or is a rifle which the owner intends to use solely for sporting purposes. Which is how >0.50" black powder rifles, air guns and flare guns still exist.
      - kragen 4y ago
        I see, thanks!

rolph 4y ago

i think you need to be FFL 10 to import destructive devices or build from specific imported parts

sbierwagen 4y ago
26 U.S.C. § 5845 (f) For the purposes of the National Firearms Act, the term “Destructive Device” means: (2) Any type of weapon by whatever name known which will, or which may readily be converted to expel a projectile, by the action of an explosive or other propellant, the barrel or barrels of which have a bore greater than one-half inch in diameter.
- rolph 4y ago
  one half inch is 50 cal or 12.7 mm. [25.4 mm == 1 inch] there was an issue with the desert eagle as a 50 cal weapon, at time considered a DD, so there was a revision for civilian carry that was, 49.5 cal with a tapered chamber. if bored out to a true 50 cal, it would constitute production of a DD i think i was looking at the 20mm cannon as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957960 but posted over here.
- kragen 4y ago
  This is bad news for those Nerf guns that shoot large balls of plastic foam with lightly compressed air. (Or is compressed air excluded from "other propellant"?)
  - sbierwagen 4y ago
    >The term “destructive device” shall not include any device which is neither designed nor redesigned for use as a weapon; any device, although originally designed for use as a weapon, which is redesigned for use as a signaling, pyrotechnic, line throwing, safety, or similar device; surplus ordnance sold, loaned, or given by the Secretary of the Army pursuant to the provisions of section 7684(2), 7685, or 7686 of title 10, United States Code; or any other device which the Secretary finds is not likely to be used as a weapon, or is an antique or is a rifle which the owner intends to use solely for sporting purposes. Which is how >0.50" black powder rifles, air guns and flare guns still exist.
    - kragen 4y ago
      I see, thanks!