{"id":162907,"date":"2022-04-27T12:13:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=162907"},"modified":"2022-04-27T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:08:14","slug":"atf-finalizes-publishes-ghost-gun-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/atf-finalizes-publishes-ghost-gun-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes &#8216;Ghost Gun&#8217; Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" title=\"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes 'Ghost Gun' Rule\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/80-percent-arms-gst-9-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes 'Ghost Gun' Rule\" class=\"wp-image-118635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/80-percent-arms-gst-9-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/80-percent-arms-gst-9-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/80-percent-arms-gst-9-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/80-percent-arms-gst-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/80-percent-arms-gst-9.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Unfinished frames or receivers that can be &#8220;readily converted&#8221; into functioning parts are now considered &#8220;firearms.&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/FR-2022-04-26\/pdf\/2022-08026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-finalizes-publishes-ghost-gun-rule\" title=\"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes 'Ghost Gun' Rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">officially published<\/a> its new rule redefining the term \u201cfirearm\u201d and banning so-called \u201cghost gun\u201d kits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Implementation of the rule will begin in 120 days, and in the meantime, expect to see multiple lawsuits from gun-rights groups asking the courts to strike down the rule on constitutional grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final rule doesn\u2019t depart in any serious way from the original rule the ATF proposed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/call-to-action-submit-your-comment-on-atfs-new-frame-or-receiver-rule-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-finalizes-publishes-ghost-gun-rule\" title=\"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes 'Ghost Gun' Rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">May of last year<\/a>. Despite receiving hundreds of thousands of comments from concerned gun owners who opposed the rule, the agency plowed ahead, at the behest of the Biden administration, to unilaterally redefine \u201cfirearm\u201d under federal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effect of the rule on build-it-yourself gun kits has justifiably received the most attention. The rule singles out products that allow an unfinished frame or receive to be \u201creadily converted\u201d into a functioning firearm component, and states that these products are now considered \u201cfirearms\u201d under federal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new rule doesn\u2019t ban homemade gun kits, but it does subject these kits to the same regulations and background check requirements as other firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dems-ask-atf-to-more-explicitly-ban-these-prohibited-accessories\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-finalizes-publishes-ghost-gun-rule\" title=\"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes 'Ghost Gun' Rule\">Dems Ask ATF to More Explicitly Ban These Prohibited Accessories&nbsp;<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency says it won\u2019t necessarily consider as \u201cfirearms\u201d all unfinished frames or receivers, which could still allow the purchase of certain so-called \u201c80-percent\u201d receivers. But if those receivers ship with dimples or jigs to assist in the machining process, that gun kit will be subject to all rules and regulations governing functioning firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;ATF has maintained and continues to maintain that a partially complete frame or receiver alone is not a frame or receiver if it still requires performance of certain machining operations (e.g., milling out the fire control cavity of an AR-15 billet or blank, or indexing for that operation) because it may not readily be completed to house or hold the applicable fire control components,&#8221; the agency said in the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However: \u201cA partially complete billet or blank of a frame or receiver is a &#8216;frame or receiver&#8217; when it is sold, distributed, or possessed with a compatible jig or template, allowing a person using online instructions and common hand tools to complete&nbsp;the&nbsp;frame or receiver efficiently, quickly, and easily &#8216;to function as a frame or receiver,\u201d the&nbsp;ATF clarifies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rule redefines a handgun \u201cframe\u201d as \u201cthe housing or structure for the primary energized component designed to hold back the hammer, striker, bolt, or similar component prior to initiation of the firing sequence (i.e., sear or equivalent).\u201d It also redefines rifle \u201creceiver\u201d as \u201cthe housing or structure for the primary component designed to block or seal the breech prior to initiation of the firing sequence (i.e., bolt, breechblock, or equivalent).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/atf-asking-vendors-for-forced-reset-trigger-customer-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-finalizes-publishes-ghost-gun-rule\" title=\"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes 'Ghost Gun' Rule\">ATF Asking Vendors for Forced Reset Trigger Customer Records<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency is shutting down one of the primary ways law-abiding gun owners have been able to build firearms without the government\u2019s knowledge or say-so. But in another provision that has received far less media attention, the ATF is making sure that the records of those gun sales never go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to this new rule, gun sellers were allowed to dispose of firearm transaction records after 20 years. Now, they\u2019re no longer allowed to destroy those records\u2014ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what happens when a gun store goes out of business? As we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/report-biden-amassing-millions-of-gun-owner-records-in-preparation-for-gun-registry\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"atf-finalizes-publishes-ghost-gun-rule\" title=\"It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes 'Ghost Gun' Rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covered previously<\/a>, those records are sent to the ATF, which scans them into an electronic database the agency insists isn\u2019t really a \u201cgun registry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s still legal to make guns at home. But this new rule makes it more difficult, and it sets up future generations for a day when the federal government possesses a record of every gun transaction in all 50 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the rule for yourself\u2014including the ATF\u2019s \u201cresponse\u201d to the comments it received\u2014see below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has officially published its new rule redefining the term \u201cfirearm\u201d and banning so-called \u201cghost gun\u201d kits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":118635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,593,240],"tags":[132,469,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-gun-control","13":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s Official: ATF Finalizes and Publishes &#039;Ghost Gun&#039; 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