shibiwan

Ouch... that looks painful even when it's working correctly. Hope you get it all worked out!!

I'd run the old milsurp to break in....

Do they look like this (left cartridge)

Naah... I'm alway a little weary of them fingernail ranchers.

This post is to satisfy Thumbnail has started to disintegrate at the root.... . .....and more disintegrating..... There's a new nail under there....

Touché! <lmao>

I detracted from blue's original thread. Isn't that SOP around these parts? <laughs>

Been watching AHC all day while working too. Good stuff today.

Hey, its the good kind of crazy here.

Money. Money changes everything.

MikeH and Tom have! It's definitely a fun build to shoot.

A guy at the range had one of those Rem 700 AACs, suppressed too. Really quiet!

Adding engraving technically falls under gunsmithing. :D If someone sends a lower (or any firearm) to me to get engraved, I can send it directly back to the owner after the work is done and not need to deal with the 4473. I could also "sign out" the stripped lower and sign it back in as anything else if I choose to, even if I don't really do any work on it. Yes, I can magically turn an "other" into anything else!! <lmao> <laughs> Bottom line is - why does the ATF have to make this so complicated. :D

Our forged lower blanks come from Cerro. There are only like 4-5 forge companies out there that makes lowers.

The above applies to a class 07 FFL (i.e. manufaturer). The act of assembling a stripped lower to a completed lower is considered "manufacturing" by the ATF, regardless of who made the stripped lower. BTW, stripped lowers are always shipped/sold as "other" from manufacturer to FFL. For an SBR/NFA item, the lower needs to be engraved with the name of the trust/individual if you go the Form 1 route. If you're going with a Form 4 and buying a pre-made/pre-registered SBR (stripped or complete), the ATF requires the manufacturer to put the manufacturer's name/city on the lower and enter it in the books as an SBR (i.e. Form 2). No other engraving is required.

I shouldn't have added to the confusion. :D As soon as any receiver is assembled, I am REQUIRED to log out the receiver (i.e. "other") and register it back in the books as whatever it's built as, and there's no turning back at that point, even if I strip everything off the lower, it remains registered as a rifle or pistol or SBR or whatever. That's the reason I keep almost all of my lowers in their unassembled form, and only assemble our shop demo units for display. That way, they remain as "other" until a) it gets assembled into a firearm, or B) it gets sold as a stripped "other" lower.

Correct, and I'm talking from the manufacturer/retail standpoint. :D I'm completely aware that the majority here are DIY builders and I would rather be selling stripped lowers to you folk than have to deal with your custom builds. <laughs> <lmao>

I'm not mentioning the 4-letter M word. Im torn because the 700 would make a good development platform for aftermarket parts then again that market has been established. The SSG 3000 has a good following in Europe (i.e. Sauer 200 STR) and due to the recently reduced price, there may be promise developing stupid toys for it too if it does catch on....

Sounds like you have the right detent pin. Make sure it engages the groove on the "end" of the safety selector and that the detent pin can move freely within the groove and catch the two indentations at the end of the travel of the safety selector.

Dammit you enablers. Stop showing me this stuff, makes it harder for me to decide what to get. I'm looking at a bolt gun myself and wondering if I should get an SSG3000 or a Rem 700.... or maybe a 338 LM for shits and giggles.

LOL... that needs to be made a meme....

Same customer now wants a matching lower (forged with my company markings). :D

Definitely better morning weather. I gotta start going back to Rio again.

Me no habla espanol! I'll end up with a oversized pinata instead of a shop. LOL

Taking a pistol lower and using that to build a rifle is fine. However, the ATF doesn't allow the reverse (i.e. a registered rifle lower to be converted to a pistol). Your best bet is "other". Tom's correct, that and the A&D (acquisition and disposal) logbooks. If it gets entered into the A&D records as a pistol or rifle, it gets registered as such and is reflected in the 4473. NFA follows too (with the addtitional form 2). You're right that if it's a stripped "other" lower the end buyer can do whatever he wants to the lower without worry (unless they reside in Commiefornia, then it gets tricky). Once an extension tube is installed on the lower, it becomes a rifle or pistol (dependent on which extension tube is installed) and if it's sold in that state, the record books need to log them as such.