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Originally Posted by Florida Patriot
Gaetz and his colleagues pose three specific questions to the Attorney General and the Acting Director:
1. What specific criteria does ATF use to determine whether a firearm is designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder?
2. What specific ATF publications are available for Americans to determine whether their firearm is designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder?
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This is going to be interesting. ATF doesn't seem to have a history of evaluating firearms in that sense. They evaluate the device (e.g., a brace). There are also in the wild copies of letters from them wherein:
- the first inspector's eval letter invoked a warning against shouldering the completed firearm and, when the company's lawyer pushed back to clarify...
- got an answer back from that inspector's boss who spent 1-1/4 pages using a lot of words to say "my subordinate was full of shit. We evaluate the DEVICE, not the intentions of the owner."
So 2 different takes on something without any guidance for a citizen to know whether he just made himself into a felon. And when bossman retires, and the first inspector takes over... that's how "policy" changes, again without the citizen knowing it. The whole thing needs to be in a dumpster.