ATF Frame/Receiver Rule Published April 26, 2022

A sweeping new rule by federal gun regulators was published early Tuesday, with possible far-ranging implications for popular firearms and related items.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives published the controversial new “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms'” rule in the Federal Register on April 26. During its public comment period last year, the changes as originally proposed drew some 300,000 comments, a rarity for a process that typically sees little feedback.

The final 98-page rule makes changes under federal law to the definition of not only a “Frame or Receiver,” but also to the definitions for a “Firearm Muffler or Silencer Frame or Receiver,” a “‘Split or Modular Frame or Receiver,” a “Partially Complete, Disassembled, or Inoperable Frame or Receiver,” a “Destroyed Frame or Receiver,” as well as adding a definition for the term “Readily” as in ‘”may readily be converted to expel a projectile” and other steps.

Also buried in the Byzantine new regulations are mandates expanding the record-making and keeping requirements for federally licensed firearms dealers along with increased scrutiny on suppressors and suppressor parts.

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1 Comments

  1. Mike-SMO on April 28, 2022 at 1:13 am

    But they make no mention of the lack of prosecution of the possession of firearms by “prohibited persons” (underage, or convicted felon with a stolen firearm), so this regulation obviously targets “Normies” with some technical skills and an interest in protecting their hearing in a defensive situation.

    To me, this reflects the Compton (Calif.) model where a new Hispanic population drove the ghetto gangsters out of town. Compton went from ~100% Black with ~100 murders per year to ~70% Hispanic with virtually no violent crime. Once the Black gang-bangers have destroyed the surviving businesses and driven the last of the “normies” out of the cities, then the replacement population (Illegal Aliens?) can be brought in. An armed suburban and rural population that has the courage and the means to defend themselves from the ghetto “refugees” would frustrate that transition and block the grift for the Pols and the profit for the property owners. New firearm regulations are designed to disarm or demoralize those who might defend themselves against the ghetto migrants. It is all part of the plan.

    The American cities are doomed relics of the 19th Century. The Illegal influx is designed to bring profit to the urban Pols and property owners. Disarming the peasants in “Flyover Country” and in the urban surround is necessary if the ghetto trash are to flee from the “profitable” replacement population. Lower wages is a problem but a distraction from the over-all plan of replacement.

    The “Progressives” have decided that the urban ghetto population is worthless and must be driven out of the cities to get a new source of grift and profit. You are going to love your new neighbors.