i know there is a one time fee to own a suppressor, but i heard that there is a annualy fee for a mg

Maryland, IIRC, requires annual state registration of MGs, and I thought there's a $10 fee attached. Could be mistaken.

I spent an "educational" day at my range where I was TOLD the following:

Having that silencer lets the ATF come in your house any time

That silencer requires a $250 annual fee every year

You should have gotten ______________ silencer ME-"You can buy what ever one you want" Oh No I don't want to be a criminal



I tried explaining, finally I just nodded and smiled

IMHO, you stand a much, much better chance of getting a knock on the door because you post on internet gun sites than you do by owning registered NFA items.

As a moderator, I know for a fact that ATF regularly surfs these sites. The NFA Registry, on the other hand, is simply a list of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding gun owners who have been cleared by ATF to own NFA items. The Registry is the last place LE will look for folks worth investigating; the internet, OTOH, is the first place they look.

Your Mileage May Vary.

You forgot the one which states, "All you have to do to convert a semi-auto AK to full-auto is put the hammer in backwards!"

Wrong.

In fact, you just perpetuated another myth.

That section tells you how to fill out the form. It does not refer to engraving, and the engraving requirement remains law.

You are not a manufacturer, but you are a maker when you file a Form 1 and the makers info needs to be on there. See below.

Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

§ 479.102 How must firearms be identified?

(a) You, as a manufacturer, importer, or maker of a firearm, must legibly identify the firearm as follows:

(1) By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed) or placed on the frame or receiver thereof an individual serial number. The serial number must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered, or removed, and must not duplicate any serial number placed by you on any other firearm. For firearms manufactured, imported, or made on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of the serial number must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch and in a print size no smaller than 1/16 inch; and

(2) By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed), or placed on the frame, receiver, or barrel thereof certain additional information. This information must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered or removed. For firearms manufactured, imported, or made on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of this information must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch. The additional information includes:
(i) The model, if such designation has been made;

(ii) The caliber or gauge;

(iii) Your name (or recognized abbreviation) and also, when applicable, the name of the foreign manufacturer or maker;

(iv) In the case of a domestically made firearm, the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the manufacturer maintain your place of business, or where you, as the maker, made the firearm; and

(v) In the case of an imported firearm, the name of the country in which it was manufactured and the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the importer maintain your place of business. For additional requirements relating to imported firearms, see Customs regulations at 19 CFR part 134.

Beat me by four minutes!


BTW, in the above statute, the "firearm" the law is referring to is a Title 2, or NFA, firearm; it does not apply to Title 1 (non-NFA) firearms.

The actual statute is section 5842(a) under Title 26 USC Chapter 53, The National Firearms Act which states that anyone making a firearm (NFA) would need to
mark the firearm. The regs in 479.102 just spell out how to mark it.

Not really.

NFA firearms are the most tightly controlled firearms in the U.S. today. So-called "assault weapons" are not, and are the target right now. If Feinstein gets her way, they will be added to the NFA Registry, and all currently owned ones will have to be registered. That's gonna get you in the Registry ... or you can stay off the Registry and hide them instead, but you're committing a felony doing so, and you'll never be able to shoot them in public again. Get caught and it's federal prison and loss of your gun rights forever. The cached firearms will not much be of any use unless TSHTF, and if that happens, laws are irrelevant and all bets are off.

But let's say that some sort of confiscation law is passed, some day in the future. Do you really think that .gov and LE will say, "Hey, let's go after the guys with machine guns first!"? Nope, they will go after the relatively low-hanging fruit initially.

As always, Your Mileage May Vary.