Boy is Stag Arms stupid as hell

[EasyEJL]

They machined 3000 lowers without serializing them, and their reason was extra stupid

Stag Arms apparently admitted keeping un-serialized lowers on hand in case a serialized lower was damaged. They apparently did so, so that they could then simply destroy the damaged lowers (without having to do additional paperwork) and put that serial number of the lower receiver on one of the un-serialized receivers.

http://bearingarms.com/stag-arms-raided-atf-stupidity-criminal-enterprise/

[blue109]

Doing it...good thinking.

Getting caught/talking about it...not so good.

Funny I was just thinking about this the other day when I saw someone selling an M16 lower for some astronomical price. I was thinking how it would suck to damage or wear out a $15k lower, and thought it might be a good idea, although illegal, to build an identical 80% lower and use it and lock the original away in a deep dark hole.

Edited May 19, 2015 by blue109

[EasyEJL]

Seriously though, how many do they screw up that they keep 3000 unserialized around?

If you want to have spares around you could run machining to 80%ers and leave them like that. The final machining doesn't take much longer than the engraving of a serial, and at least that's legal :)

[Toolndie7]

the US Bureau of engraving and printing does something similar with a "star note" but I guess you really cant put a star in your firearms serial number lol. Maybe a -NFG or a -FU  haha

[survivalshop]

  They said the employee that did the numbering was on vacation  <laughs>  How did the Fed's know he had all those un-documented Lowers  ? An inspection ?

 

  I used to buy Select fire Lowers for & 165.00 back in the early 80's .  <thumbsup>

[EasyEJL]

They were doing an audit and found them, let stag know, and then came back a week later to check and they still weren't serialized. morons.

[blue109]

Easy...THAT GUY WAS ON VACATION. geez, cut them some slack.

;)

[EasyEJL]

I'll cut them some slack on the initial no serials find by the ATF, but really after the ATF tells you this is wrong and you need to fix it not fixing it is hard to give them a pass on. The ATF surprisingly is pretty flexible, and doesn't want to press charges against a company unless stuff happens repeatedly or as a pattern. Had they spent the week serializing + logging all that stuff, I'd bet money the ATF wouldn't have done anything except keep an eye out for it in future audits. Shadow Ops had a handful of issues with an ATF audit, and they were very flexible in terms of letting us get things fixed + documented correctly first before pushing it as charges

[1loco]

Maybe they were arming a secret zombie army to take over the world.... yea you are right; they are just stupid.