Title 27--Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms
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CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
PART 178--COMMERCE IN FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION
Dealer. Any person engaged in the business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail; any person engaged in the business of repairing firearms or of making or fitting special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms; or any person who is a pawnbroker. The term shall include any person who engages in such business or occupation on a part-time basis.
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d) Gunsmith. A person who devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in such activity as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit, but such a term shall not include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms;
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Manufacturer. Any person engaged in the business of manufacturing firearms or ammunition. The term shall include any person who engages in such business on a part-time basis.
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Where you get into trouble is doing more than one firearm and charging for it. As I said previously, putting a stock on a persons rifle isn't going to get you into trouble. Installing an RSA or G2 fire control group in a buddies rifle isn't going to get you into trouble.
Helping someone build an AK out of the goodness of your heart isn't going to get you into trouble.
Building a few AK's for some guys you meet on this or any other board and charging them a fee if you aren't licensed is going to get you in a world of shit sooner or later. Someone's kid takes one of those rifles and shoots up a school, Police go to the kids house and ask father how the kid got the rifle. Father says, "My buddy GunBid built it and sold it to me, he told me
you are allowed to build as many AK's for profit as long as you are using a Global, Ohio reciever."
ATF goes and picks up GunBid who purchases plenty of soap on a rope for shower time at the nearest Federal Pen where he is bunked up with Chief Thunder.