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  Aww garsh...thanks. But technically, most of my comments in this forum are not about actual NFA stuff at all, but rather about issues that are not really NFA, even though some folks may think they are, like current topic -- main reason I ever pipe up here.   I certainly don't know many of the finer points about true NFA subtleties; I don't even have an NFA item.   - OS

  As long as you have a "useful purpose other than making an NFA firearm" for anything in your parts collection, you're cool. Parts are everything, loose, or installed into complete firearm.   It's not whether you can make something unlawful, but whether you can also make something lawful.   Note that "parts in close proximity" extends to your whole property by case law. Obviously if you're out and about with stuff, you need to be more careful. Like not having a stock with a pistol only, or a vertical forward grip with a pistol only that's under 26", stuff like that.   Hold a part or component in your hand. Among all the stuff you have:   - is there something illegal I can do with it?     - if no, fine     - if yes, is there also something legal I can do with it?           - if yes, fine           - if no, don't have it     Short take since you're talking AR pistol. If the only AR stuff you own is the pistol, don't have a stock in your possession period. If it's less than 26" in overall length, don't have a vertical forward grip in your possession either. Short of full auto components or a silencer, those are the only two possible gotchas.   - OS

  No tax stamp, it's in the normal handgun classification.   Federally, a pistol must be made from a receiver (lower in case of AR) that was not initially configured as a rifle. Once it is a pistol, it can also be made into a rifle and go back and forth between pistol and rifle. It's a "dedicated" pistol while it is in pistol configuration, but could also be a "dedicated" rifle while in legal rifle configuration. :)   In some states all handguns must be registered, and I have no idea whether they must stay handguns or not under those various state laws, but TN of course has none of that sort of thing. The only quirk we have is that there is a definition of "handgun" as having a barrel under 12". Not that having one with a + 12" barrel is illegal, and TN code does not say what it becomes, only that I suppose it would not technically be legit to carry on person with an HCP.   - OS

  ?? The current veep became prez when Nixon resigned. Incidentally, Ford was the only man to serve as both Veep and Prez who was never elected to either position.   - OS

  Hwy 66?  Knoxville?   - OS

"Only" 35 years.   http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2014/12/09/east-tn-couple-grape-soda-death/20131791/   http://news.yahoo.com/tennessee-couple-35-years-prison-girls-soda-death-233916513.html   http://www.inquisitr.com/1668203/five-year-old-forced-to-drink-grape-soda-until-death-couple-gets-35-years/   - OS

  Some oneline places stick to the unenforced federal law, some ignore it. Try another vendor.   If you can't find one that will ship it, guess you'll have to try and buy local somewhere.   -OS

I know GA is cool for having hand/long gun in personal vehicle -- like TN now, no permit even needed.   Dunno bout FL.   - OS

  It's all happened since Sandy Hook though. I had just bought one of the good Blazer case deals just a few months at the most before SH for the same ole ~.03 round in hand.  And bought my first AR pistol lower about two weeks before SH at gun show. In ten days or less,   both options were gone, except for exorbitant pricing.   The ~ .04 -.10 jump average I mentioned didn't happen over regular normal inflation rate or COLA or anything, just happened almost overnight due to sudden unprecedented supply/demand, and that's still the primary determiner.   - OS

  Did you confirm that it was same tracking number as was actually communicated from PA?   That is another glitch than can happen with vendors, and I've had it happen with UPS shipments. They issue a number that never gets used. The PayPal/eBay interface with USPS also had a hiccup like that for a few days once .. the record of the shipment was not what what was actually printed.   So, Toba, just what did PA say. That the product actually got out the door, or what?   - OS

  Nah, PA generated the label but found didn't have product to ship most likely. His phone call seems to support that.   - OS

  No. Unloaded possession is a lesser charge. It also contains the exemption for non-student adult to have unloaded firearm stored in vehicle on school property.   Though "unloaded" is not specifically in the wording, has always seemed obvious to me that is the intended difference between the two paragraphs, one being while "going armed" and one not.   - OS

  In TN, a loaded firearm (or ammo in immediate vicinity) is always intent to go armed if desire is there to charge, simple as that. With other "weapons" it's much grayer.   - OS

  Yeah, I do, but not really. From the 1960's all the way to Sandy Hook, plinking grade .22LR was always available from 1.0 to 4.0 cents a round. That's not much of a creep over 50 years. What crept of course was that the value of the dollar fell, especially in the last decade.   But a jump from that .04 to a dime almost overnight is beyond the pale.   - OS

  Hey, you can go after bear with a Ruger LCP if you like, no need for a big honkin' heater. ;)     - OS

  That one is wired.   - OS

  Yep. I agree that the doofus way they wrote 4-54-103 and also without revision of 39-17-1302  means one is not actually exempt one from state prosecution for possession of a SBS, SBR, or silencer made in TN, only from federal prosecution (except not then either of course).   So I guess that's what they intended, which simply negates having to have a federal manufacturing FFL?  Who knows, whole thing an exercise in idiocy.   Just wait till some of the anti-abortion bills get enacted -- unlike regarding this one, the lawsuits will fly immediately.   - OS

  The "pound" is the price.   - OS

  Oh, absolutely Dave.   edited to add: the "boning" is actually more precise for specific gun shape.   - OS

  Feed lips on the current mag are too wide? Compare them carefully.   Still seems pretty weird that it could do that at all though, really.   - OS

  TN says it's legal. Federal gummit says it ain't.   - OS

  I'm sure Gov. Haslam will stand by your side when the ATF comes a knockin too, eh?   - OS

  TN Firearm Freedom Act, TCA 4-54-101 thru 106   can't do direct link to individual statutes with Lexis, TCA at:   http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/tncode/ -----------------   4-54-103.  Chapter definitions.   As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:    (1) "Firearms accessories" means items that are used in conjunction with or mounted upon a firearm but are not essential to the basic function of a firearm, including, but not limited to, telescopic or laser sights, magazines, flash or sound suppressors, folding or aftermarket stocks and grips, speedloaders, ammunition carriers and lights for target illumination;    (2) "Generic and insignificant parts" includes, but is not limited to, springs, screws, nuts and pins; and    (3) "Manufactured" means creating a firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition from basic materials for functional usefulness, including, but not limited to, forging, casting, machining or other processes for working materials.   4-54-104.  Firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition manufactured in this state not subject to federal regulation under interstate commerce clause.   A personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in this state and that remains within the borders of this state is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce. It is declared by the legislature that those items have not traveled in interstate commerce. This section applies to a firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured in this state from basic materials and that can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported into this state. Generic and insignificant parts that have other manufacturing or consumer product applications are not firearms, firearms accessories or ammunition, and their importation into this state and incorporation into a firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition manufactured in this state does not subject the firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition to federal regulation. It is declared by the legislature that basic materials, such as unmachined steel and unshaped wood, are not firearms, firearms accessories or ammunition and are not subject to congressional authority to regulate firearms, firearms accessories and ammunition under interstate commerce as if they were actually firearms, firearms accessories or ammunition. The authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce in basic materials does not include authority to regulate firearms, firearms accessories and ammunition made in this state from those materials. Firearms accessories that are imported into this state from another state and that are subject to federal regulation as being in interstate commerce do not subject a firearm to federal regulation under interstate commerce because they are attached to or used in conjunction with a firearm in this state.   4-54-105.  Application of § 4-54-104.   Section 4-54-104 shall not apply to:    (1) A firearm that cannot be carried and used by one (1) person;    (2) A firearm that has a bore diameter greater than one and one half inches (1 1/2'') and that uses smokeless powder, not black powder, as a propellant;    (3) Ammunition with a projectile that explodes using an explosion of chemical energy after the projectile leaves the firearm; or    (4) A firearm that discharges two (2) or more projectiles with one (1) activation of the trigger or other firing device.     - OS

  TN law explicitly allows you to make your own silencer, not subject to federal regulation if you keep it in the state.   - OS

  That's basically it. Being "in the business" of gunsmithing is:   "...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 term shall not include a person who makes occasional repairs of firearms, or who occasionally fits special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms."   But that's between him and de federal gummit. You can legally send a firearm to whoever to work on within confines of your own state, though actually getting it done is not so simple, and really in the case of a handgun is impossible to do between unlicensed individuals if you follow both federal law and the TOS of the shipper.   - OS