Federal Firearms Licenses: Types, Fees, and Descriptions

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BSA Optics

The BSA name, once famous for hunting rifles and those classic old British motorcycles is now gaining the same kind of excellent reputation for high quality optics at affordable prices. BSA has two different types of scopes for two different types of shooting. Hunting and target/varmint. Their hunting scopes are as bright and tough as they can make them and their target scopes have all the convenient features and newest innovations needed to make shooting with them accurate and a pleasure. BSA has unleashed an unusual new hunting scope called the Catseye. It was created to let hunters see better in low light. You’ll feel like you have “cats eyes” when you look into dark areas or long shadows, where game suddenly appears. Another tough hunting scope from BSA is the Deer Hunter. When you compare its brightness and quality to other scopes, at the same price, it will be on your favorite rifle the next time that you go hunting. BSA Target Scopes are also highly thought of. The Platinum line with fully multi-coated optics, are exceptionally well made with very close minimal tolerances that make them very accurate, shot after shot. The all new Contender target scopes can’t be touched for advanced features, innovations and accuracy. When it comes to value, the Contender is champion. A varied selection of specialty scopes are offered, plus Spotting Scopes in different price ranges. Each one at the top of its class. We would like to go along with you the next time that you go shooting. Take a good look at us. BSA, you’ll like what you see.

Some examples of conversion parts; a SWD Auto Connector (for AR rifles), an AR-15 Accessories drop-in auto sear, an HK sear, as made by Fleming Firearms, J.A. Ciener, and S&H Arms, among others, a AUG sear as made by F.J. Vollmer and Qualified Manufacturing, an FN-FNC sear, as made by S&H, an M-2 conversion kit for the M-1 carbine, registered by many class 2′s, a slotted UZI machine gun bolt, made by Group Industries, and many others, or a Ruger 10/22 trigger pack, as made by John Norell. There are also sears to convert Glock and Beretta 92 pistols into machine guns, but I believe all of them are post-86 manufacture, and thus unavailable to civilians.

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# John Q. Public bought himself an AR-15 Accessories receiver in 1988 and put it in his safe. In April 1997, he decided to build it into a rifle. Was it a gun before The Date? No… so he has to build it into a POST-ban firearm.

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eotech 553

I shot some pictures of the 553 on my MRP this evening. This is a really nice unit and the height is perfect without the need for a riser. I would like to have the LaRue QD, but the throw lever is a good product and it will serve fine on the 553. The mount is build very nicely inot the base so the lever is not sticking out in case it might get snagged. The reticle is Rev F clear and the addition of the CR123 batteries made the sight a lot shorter, not as short as the 551 bit it did return some much need it rail space on the top rail. The battery compartment is dummy cord, and the internals are blacked out so if you are in a very dark enviroment, your opponent will not see a faint red glow as the laser projection is bouncing off the lens edge and projecting. I have not been told on the battery life but the number of 1500 hours have been tossed around. More pictures coming in my Shotshow report…damn lot of photoshop with total of 150 pics taken at the Shot… Enjoy.

Note that this definition is only in the rules for the NFA, and not the GCA. It is designed to interact with the AOW definition. For example even though this definition excludes such things as the .410 T/C Contender pistol from the pistol definition, it is also not an AOW as it has a rifled bore. And it is also a handgun under the GCA. The NFA statute does not define “pistol” or “revolver”. I think that excluding handguns designed to be fired when held in two hands is not necessarily justifiable. But it allowed them to declare that an HK SP-89 pistol with a K grip is an AOW. As is an M-11/9 or TEC-9 with a foregrip. The Auto Ordnance 1927-A3 pistol is apparently exempted, for historical authenticity.

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Or you can make any NFA weapon, except for machine guns (see below), by filing a Form 1, “Application to Make and Register a Firearm”, and paying the $200 making tax, which …

A few notes: before November, 1981, BATF did not consider the drop-in AR-15 Accessories sear to be a machine gun in itself, because you had to replace all the internal parts with M-16 parts, as well as install the sear, and thus it didn’t convert the AR by itself. However in ATF Ruling 81-4, BATF changed its mind about what a thing had to do in order to be a conversion part, grandfathered all AR sears made before the ruling, and decided all made after that needed to be registered. HOWEVER, the fact that the sear itself, if made before 11/81, and sold through ads in Shotgun News to this day (they sure made a lot of ‘em back then, or maybe not) is not required to be registered, DOES NOT mean you may install it in an AR-15 Accessories, or even possess it with an AR-15 Accessories rifle. Either scenario is a machine gun also, and also needs to be registered. Except of course you cannot register it anymore, and thus it is just a millstone, waiting to send you to a federal prosecution. And that exact scenario has been the basis for many prosecutions.

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An AOW is:

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The transfer involves paying the transfer tax, which is $200 for all the NFA weapons, except AOW’s for which the tax is a mere $5. Individuals also have to get one of several specified local chief law enforcement officers to sign the form (see the section on the law enforcement certification for more information), submit their fingerprints in duplicate, and attach photos of the transferee to the form. While the transfer tax is levied by law on the transferor (seller), in practice the transferee (buyer) is expected to pay the tax. Transfers to individuals tend to take at least 4 months, although subsequent transfers can be quicker.

The ability to move the sear or other parts between like guns is a nice feature of the sear; you can have all your HK guns be full autos, one at a time, and only have one registered item, and one transfer tax to pay, for example. However each sear or conversion kit may require a bit of fine tuning to the host gun to make it work, this swapping feature may be overrated, depending on the design of the sear and of the host gun.

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A DEWAT is an unserviceable gun that has an intact receiver, thus, as of the GCA of 1968, it is a machine gun. In 1955 the ATT decided that a gun that was a registered war souvenir (or for a time, a contraband unregistered gun) could be removed from the coverage of the NFA if it was rendered unserviceable by steel welding the breech closed, and steel welding the barrel to the frame. All this was to be done under the supervision of an ATT inspector. See Revenue Ruling 55-590. The gun became a wall hanger, ornament, like parts sets now. This was not the same as an unserviceable gun, which was still subject to the NFA, but exempt from the transfer tax. These steel welded guns were DEWAT’s. DEWAT stands for DEactivated WAr Trophy; it was regularly done for servicemen who wished to bring home NFA war souvenirs. It was also done to WWI and WWII era guns imported as surplus by companies like ARMEX International, and Interarmco, and then sold through the mail in ads in gun magazines. The glory days before 1968. A DEWAT must now be registered to be legal, there is no longer a legal difference between a DEWAT and an unserviceable weapon. A few states only allow individuals to own DEWAT machine guns, Iowa comes to mind.

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* General Info on NFA weapons
* Obtaining the law enforcement certification
* NFA weapons and the 4th amendment
* NFA weapon amnesties
* Machine gun sears and conversion parts
* DEWATs
* Any other weapons
* Destructive devices
* Sound suppressors (Silencers)
* Short barreled rifles
* Appendix – State NFA restrictions and a note about California ATF Forms, compiled by Trenton Grale

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Short shotguns and short rifles are defined at (c)(1) and (c)(2) respectively; the definitions are essentially the same as federal law. HOWEVER, unlike the feds, California courts have ruled that the length of a rifle with a folding stock is measured with the stock folded, not extended, as the feds do. So a gun that is not a short rifle under federal law may be one under California law. See People v. Rooney, 17 Cal.App.4th 1207 (1 Dist. 1993).