> The ATF examined the Auto Key Cards and a firearms enforcement officer was able to remove the pieces of a lightning link from an Auto Key Card using a common Dremel rotary tool in about 40 minutes.
So in effect, the ATF was able to manufacture an unregistered machine gun conversion device from a legal piece of steel with a drawing on it, using tools. Steel is not illegal, nor are drawings. As mentioned by rpmisms, we have a first amendment right to freedom of speech in the United States.
The same thing can be accomplished, arguably more easily, by bending a metal coat hanger into the required shape, but Target isn't being raided by the ATF.
And of course, anyone with access to a 3d printer and the gatalog can create a lightning link in about 22 minutes. Guess it's time to ban the Internet!
Consider this: the kind of people who wouldn’t know how to do this otherwise are exactly the kind of people I don’t want given a die cut model for how to do it.
Meanwhile illegal full-auto Glock switches are flooding into urban areas such as Chicago across the country, ordered overseas from Aliexpress completely unimpeded, because the ATF would rather go after people that aren't violent criminals.
Funnily enough, they're pushing towards common use, which makes for an interesting legal argument that giggle switches are no longer dangerous and unusual.
> The ATF examined the Auto Key Cards and a firearms enforcement officer was able to remove the pieces of a lightning link from an Auto Key Card using a common Dremel rotary tool in about 40 minutes.
So in effect, the ATF was able to manufacture an unregistered machine gun conversion device from a legal piece of steel with a drawing on it, using tools. Steel is not illegal, nor are drawings. As mentioned by rpmisms, we have a first amendment right to freedom of speech in the United States.
The same thing can be accomplished, arguably more easily, by bending a metal coat hanger into the required shape, but Target isn't being raided by the ATF.