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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NikatKimber" data-source="post: 2941467" data-attributes="member: 423">Disagree. It specifically applies to Gunsmiths, FFLs, and businesses, but per the following, not limited to:**************************"Held,any person (including any corporation or other legal entity) engaged in the businessof performing machining, molding, casting, forging, printing (additive manufacturing) or othermanufacturing process to create a firearm frame or receiver, or to make a frame or receiversuitable for use as part of a “weapon ... which will or is designed to or may readily be convertedto expel a projectile by the action of an explosive,”i.e., a “firearm,” must be licensed as amanufacturer under the GCA; identify (mark) any such firearm; and maintain requiredmanufacturer’s records. Held further,a business (including an association or society) may not avoid themanufacturing license, marking, and recordkeeping requirements of the GCA by allowingpersons to perform manufacturing processes on blanks or incomplete firearms (including framesor receivers) using machinery, tools, or equipment under its dominion and control where thatbusiness controls access to, and use of, such machinery, tools, or equipment. "**************************By my reading of that, if any entity (non individual person) charges for or holds control of access to the tools/machinery, then it is illegal. An individual (not group, business, trust, etc) may allow someone else to use their tools/machinery, and control access to such, and be legal; however if they charge for such then it is illegal.My understanding of the context is that this is not aimed at the buddies working on an 80% lower in their private shop, but the publicized "build parties" with any kind of entry fee or using business property.</blockquote>

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