RECOIL Presents Concealment – Issue 22, 2021
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Welcome at RECOIL Presents Concealment Magazine Issue 22, 2021
I recently had the pleasure of sharing a campfire with the guys from Polymer 80, makers of the eponymous DIY Glock clones, before the current administration announced their most recent attack on the 2nd Amendment. It was interesting to get their take on things, given a perspective gained from being on the receiving end of an ATF raid consisting of a jocked-up tac team, where a simple phone call might’ve sufficed.
It’s clear that Joe and Co have a hard-on for the law-abiding American gun owner, and this is just an opening salvo in what promises to be a protracted campaign. The tradition of making your own firearms is a long one, dating back to the founding of this republic. Control freaks in government don’t like the idea, because how dare the peasants be able to not only possess the means to challenge their authority, but to do so without first asking permission.
In order to affect this restriction, the administration seeks not to pass or amend a law through the legislative branch, but to
rewrite existing rules through administrative fi at, counter to the principles of representative government. The core of their proposals is that anyone in the business of supplying unfinished receivers which are “readily convertible” obtains an FFL and the receivers themselves are treated as fi rearms, subject to serial numbers and background checks. Anyone completing an 80%er will have to engrave it with a serial number within seven days of completion. The criteria they use to determine whether an 80% receiver is “readily converted” are as you’d expect, arbitrary and capricious, subject to the whim of a faceless, unelected bureaucrat, and their proposals aren’t only unworkable from a logistical point of view, but for the most part unenforceable.
It’s intriguing that the Biden team would put forward these proposals, knowing that when the states of Connecticut and New York rammed through restrictions on semi auto rifles, requiring them to be registered, the gun-owning public raised their collective middle fingers and responded with a stunning rate of noncompliance, ranging from between 95 and 85 percent. We anticipate
similar levels if this goes through.
In the meantime, we recommend you go and equip yourself with the knowledge of how to complete one of these projects, because knowledge is one thing the government is afraid of, more so even than scary “ghost guns.” Once you’ve added to your personal library, having an unfinished receiver in the safe is never a bad thing. Should you choose to pull an extra stool up to the workbench, sharing the build process with the next generation of gun owners makes for a great weekend project, as well as some quality parent/offspring time.
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