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Yeah you're probably right about that. Hopefully the OP will get his barrel fixed by a different gunsmith. It seems like a very easy fix with some shims on it. Hard to tell from the photos just how much it is off but it seems to me like a very small amount.
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Looks like a quarter inch. Which means if you shim it, you're looking at ~0.25"+ of shims (to get a little past 16.0"), which will likely be ugly, for one. I would be more worried about the muzzle device only having ~0.30" of threads at that point, and then stacked tolerances impacting concentricity when mounting a can... which even assumes that despite his demonstrated lack of competence in measurements, and not disassembling the barrel from the upper (according to OP's recounting of their conversation), he somehow cut the threads concentric to begin with.
If they are both "getting screwed" I think that's what we call "fair". OP doesn't get his barrel done correctly, and smith doesn't get paid. I don't see the problem. Except OP is out a barrel now.
Gunsmith doesn't need to be a lawyer to know what the laws relevant to his job are. I dont think any of us in this thread are lawyers, but we seem to know more about legal requirements relevant to S&S Precision Rifle's job than he does and we aren't getting paid to work on guns. It would be like going to a guy to do your taxes who doesn't know the most basic tax laws. Is it possible? Probably. He's not a lawyer. Should you let him do your taxes? Probably not.
And to be fair, yeah, it's entirely possible that a gunsmith is offering pin/weld services without understanding what the ATF requires (despite it being a service that is requested almost exclusively for ATF compliance), but that is just more proof he's not a
competent gunsmith, and you probably shouldn't let him work on your stuff.
I told the story earlier in this thread where I took a gun to a local gunsmith to chop/pin/weld and after 2 minutes of talking to him and him explaining to me that the ATF doesn't require welding - a simple blind pin will suffice, I realized he was not a competent gunsmith and took my guns and left.