Looking for opinions.

[jtmaze]

Today I have been shopping for ar lowers and ran across some 80% machined lowers. I am assuming these are non registered parts that you have to finish machining yourself to make a TN built gun. Does anyone have any experience with these? I have access to a milling machine so the machining process is not really a problem. I am not going to attempt this for my first ar build but might my second.

JTM

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[Guest FIST]

I've tinkered with idea as well but haven't got to it.

[Static_USMC]

I have gotten a couple from tactical machine in Deland, Fl.

http://www.tacticalmachining.com/80-products/80-receivers/80-ar-15-lower-receiver.html Check their forums...they have instructions.

Well built, I got their jig also. Used a bridgeport and took me a couple hours to do my first one. I'm not a machinist and was extra carefull. You can bulid your own with out putting made in TN. I think feds say you can build one or two a year legally and never for resale. I did mine to SBR on a Form 1, so it's registered anyway.

[jtmaze]

I don't really care about the registered part I just thought it would be a interesting project. I am not a machinist either but I have a friend who is and he has an extra milling machine he wants to set up in my shop if I can ever get it cleaned out(my house is about 25 miles closer to his house than his shop.

JTM

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[Guest Razz]

Question about a build with no registration:

If you were pulled over by a LEO for a traffic violation and through conversation he learned about the weapon in your car. How would the situation play out if he wanted to run the serial number?

Don't mean to high jack the thread but I've been wondering this, lately...

[Guest BungieCord]

Question about a build with no registration:

If you were pulled over by a LEO for a traffic violation and through conversation he learned about the weapon in your car. How would the situation play out if he wanted to run the serial number?

Don't mean to high jack the thread but I've been wondering this, lately...

1. There is no gun registration in Tennessee.

2. There are millions of guns in the US made before manufacturers were required to put serial numbers on them. I own several, some of which I still hunt with. It is not a crime to have a firearm with no serial number, it only is a crime to remove an existing serial number or to possess a weapon with its serial number removed. If you "manufactured" the weapon, there is no requirement to apply a serial number, although some recommend you do serialize your builds for identification purposes in case of theft.

[Guest Razz]

That makes sense. Thanks, Bungie

[Static_USMC]

Serial # MADE IN TENNESSEE

[Guest 6.8 AR]

You can do whatever you wish to that lower, with the exception of making something out of it, like

an auto lower. Don't do that. You don't have to register it. There may be some question about

selling it to someone else. I wouldn't sell it. If I had a access to a mill I would gladly go that route.