Guns and Ammo Thread

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The Pennsylvania Attorney General has unilaterally overturned a duly passed state law and declared an 80% receiver to be a firearm.


AG Shapiro, Gov. Wolf: 80% Receivers Are Firearms

My Office is taking the initial step of clarifying – through my official, legal opinion – that under Pennsylvania law, 80% receivers are firearms and can be treated, regulated, and enforced as such. The proliferation of these untraceable weapons strikes at the heart of our public safety, hindering law enforcement’s ability to protect our communities. Today, we take the first step in addressing this problem.

If we don’t recognize that 80 percent receivers are firearms under Pennsylvania law, we are creating a giant loophole that allows criminals to skirt our agreed-upon laws that keep people safe. Changing this classification will not hurt legal, responsible gun owners – This change will stop criminals, terrorists and other people who can’t pass a background check from acquiring a gun through the loophole.

All this over something that is used in a tiny, tiny fraction of ARs, which are used in a very small percentage of gun crimes. Tempest in a teapot.

This is just one step removed from declaring raw aluminum bauxite (the most common aluminum ore) a firearm.

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The Pennsylvania Attorney General has unilaterally overturned a duly passed state law and declared an 80% receiver to be a firearm.


AG Shapiro, Gov. Wolf: 80% Receivers Are Firearms





All this over something that is used in a tiny, tiny fraction of ARs, which are used in a very small percentage of gun crimes. Tempest in a teapot.

This is just one step removed from declaring raw aluminum bauxite (the most common aluminum ore) a firearm.

have the manufacturers just leave an extra aluminum tab on them, that has to be ground off, so they are 78% finished instead of 80% finished, and therefore they wont be subject to the new law.