Inert paperweights are now functional firearms.
That Was Then…
This is now. When you’re a federal bureaucrat, consistency doesn’t matter if you want to screw people over.
On September 27, 2022, the ATF issued an open letter explaining the unfinished frame/receiver rule:
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Don’t worry – *eventually*, they’ll be trying to outlaw these too:
https://www.80percentarms.com/products/0-billet-ar-15-lower-receiver/
Face it – they don’t want us having firearms they don’t know about, and/or thinking that we could build them ourselves. Goes along with wanting to ban guns in general. Why, you ask – would they want to do such a thing?
Because they’re planning on doing things to us that would make us want to shoot back – to stop the threat. Plain and simple.
Take a closer look at the December 27, 2022 letter. It talks a lot about “readily” but never actually defines it. The current letter can apply to 0% blocks.
ETA: And $49 plus S&H? I can cast my own block of aluminum a lot cheaper than that. I guess that’s a novelty aimed at the same sort of people thaat would pay five bucks for a pet rock.