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Just a heads up: those are wildly illegal to manufacture. The few sears grandfathered in (legal to own/sell) are worth $20k+. This man risked a life sentence in
by itsyaboi 4y ago
Just a heads up: those are wildly illegal to manufacture. The few sears grandfathered in (legal to own/sell) are worth $20k+. This man risked a life sentence in federal prison driving around with a ziploc bag full of those things.
Trivial to 3D print, or file down a piece of scrap metal into the right shape. Just goes to show how inane gun laws can be.
- scottiebarnes 4y ago> This man risked a life sentence in federal prison driving around with a ziploc bag full of those things. How do you get the parts to the buyback program if you can't drive to them?
- jahnu 4y agoUnder the speed limit I assume
- MichaelCollins 4y agoIt's not the driving part. He risked federal prison for even making them.
- hajile 4y agoWhich is ridiculous. You can carve one out of sheet metal in a couple minutes. This won’t stop evil people. Even worse, a self centering punch and 5 seconds can turn your AR-15 into an illegal automatic weapon as far as the ATF is concerned (just punch approximately where the auto pin would go). The only people affected by these garbage laws are the ones who aren’t interested in harming anyone.
- prvit 4y ago> You can carve one out of sheet metal in a couple minutes. This won’t stop evil people You can murder a person with the same level of effort. The only people affected by these garbage laws against murder are the ones who aren’t interested in harming anyone.
- djitz 4y agoThose laws exist to protect gun manufacturers and their profits, not the American people.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoGun manufacturers can't profit from selling auto sears either (except to cops and the military I guess)
- _manifold 4y agoTechnically, but by that standard everyone who's ever purchased marijuana at a state-legal dispensary is risking prison time as well. It's also one of those situations where the practical reality of being caught for something like this is basically nil. Especially when the intent is neither to sell, distribute, nor use them yourself.
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- bsder 4y ago> The few sears grandfathered in (legal to own/sell) are worth $20k+. Isn't a "sear" a standard part of a trigger mechanism? What is illegal about it?
- donavanm 4y agoA sear is a standard part, and legal on its own. A specific design, an “auto sear”, prevents the weapon from locking back up in battery after the slide/bolt returns. That’s effectively a “machine gun” and unlicensed (technically, untaxed) ones are a felony to possess since 1981. The anonymous creator is an idiot for making them, much less using them in a publicity stunt.
- devwastaken 4y agoAs is synthesizing meth. Yet if you want it it's always within a few blocks distance. Imagine if you had a meth buyback. Same thing. The war on alcohol didn't work, the war on drugs didn't work, now we think the war on firearms will work. Politics has to have some demon to point at so voters will give away more power.
- not_really 4y agoThey are not illegal to make. Not sure where your info is from but PayPal would like their $2.5k. Making a sear is completely federally legal in the US. It is however illegal to make a sear featuring support for automatic or select fire, unless you have the appropriate licensing to manufacture. This guy built sears for a 3D printed gun. I think he will be okay.
- itsyaboi 4y agoThe sears in this context are auto sears, if that was not obvious :)