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Posted: 4/22/2012 8:23:02 AM EDT
| A customer comes in and purchases a brand x ar15 and also buys a rr2stage trigger, full float hand guard and scope and scope mount. He wants the parts installed and the scope mounted and sighted in. Manufacturing? |
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Interesting question, and one of those annoying grey areas.
If you don't charge him extra for the installation, then you haven't added value and resold, which seems to be the threshold between manufacturing and gunsmithing. You could still charge him for the service of sighting in his new rifle. If you sell him the AR and the upgrades, and charge a fee to install them, all in one transaction, then it probably does fall under manufacturing, since you're adding value to a rifle and reselling it for more than you would the unaltered base rifle. If instead, a customer comes in and buys a rr2stage trigger, full float handguard and scope and scope mount, then wants the parts installed on HIS brand x ar15, and the scope mounted and sighted in - that is merely gunsmithing. You're selling parts for and doing work on the CUSTOMER's rifle. My $.02 |
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Interesting question, and one of those annoying grey areas. If you don't charge him extra for the installation, then you haven't added value and resold, which seems to be the threshold between manufacturing and gunsmithing. You could still charge him for the service of sighting in his new rifle. If you sell him the AR and the upgrades, and charge a fee to install them, all in one transaction, then it probably does fall under manufacturing, since you're adding value to a rifle and reselling it for more than you would the unaltered base rifle. If instead, a customer comes in and buys a rr2stage trigger, full float handguard and scope and scope mount, then wants the parts installed on HIS brand x ar15, and the scope mounted and sighted in - that is merely gunsmithing. You're selling parts for and doing work on the CUSTOMER's rifle. My $.02 To play devil's advocate could said customer not just come back the next day? Purchase all the parts and have you then install them? |
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Put the rifle on one invoice, run customer through NICS, now it's his gun and off your books. Put parts and labor to install on a second invoice = gunsmithing. When I had my interview with the atf the IOI specifically brought something like that up...she said splitting it up on the same day could still be considered manufacturing.. |
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