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Assuming Biden finally finishes cleaning up the mess Trump made and COVID is finally under control, do you think this incoming administration would make a move to reclassify these not-a-SBS-by-technicality firearms as being SBS? Should I start getting ready to go on a boating trip or do you believe they'll be safe for now?

I’m under the impression that a non card holder can go to a MSP barracks with a card holder, and legally transfer a firearm to them as a gift.

I know Maryland law SB97 has not been fully passed, but can the state police deny you as a card holder if you’re not actually purchasing the firearm?

Does this type of transfer require that federal form that asks about drug use?

I realize that this likely varies by jurisdiction, and on some levels is a lawyer question, but for the purposes of this sub asking on the LEO level. Like if you have a felon, or person whose parole conditions disallow “firearms”, would you give them a pass if you found out in their dresser at home they had say a Colt revolver of the old kind where you have to pour black powder and press a bullet and wadding into each chamber and a firing cap at the back of the cylinder for each?

I feel like on a lot of firearm subs you get people saying “if you can’t legally have a gun but need one, get a BP gun since per ATF it’s not a firearm.” And indeed in most states anyone over 18 can buy one (or get one through the mail) with no paperwork.

But does that argument remotely fly in actual practice, or would an LEO normally conclude it’s still a violation regardless of the exact legal designation of this item that shoots bullets?

Just took my RPAL course. We got talking about prohibited and obviously how they can be passed down to next of kin etc.

I was wondering, what if you adopted a child? You could technically adopt your buddy. I know it’s a ridiculous idea and nobody would go to these lengths just for a prohibited gun, but could you?

There is also something about common law. Could you not just fake common law with a roommate?

Once again, I know these are ridiculous lengths to go to. My instructor and I were joking around, but in the end he didn’t have a definitive answer for me.

One of the sales agents at a popular gun store in Burbank today told me that “the KelTec sub-2000 is not considered a firearm when it is folded up” so you ca transport it in your car without needing to follow the DOT firearm rules.

Wtf? This cannot be right. They are implying to potential customers that this is the perfect truck gun because you can transport it loaded and “it’s not considered a firearm in its folded state because it is disassembled”.

This sounds like a court case waiting to happen. Am I missing something here? Is this some epic California truck gun loophole I’m missing out on? My mind tells me that if a lower receiver by itself is considered a firearm, then it shouldn’t matter if this thing is folded or not.

I'm kind of ignorant and not too sure on what I can and can't do when it comes to selling guns.

Potential loophole in the NFA for captive piston (internally suppressed) ammo?

This one is kind obscure, and not sure if you guys have heard of captive piston technology.

These special rounds have little pistons in them (between the bullet & propellent), that traps in the powder gas when fired. The piston transfers energy to the bullet by pushing out of the case neck.

All of the unburned powder gets trapped in behind the piston too, so there is no muzzle flash at all. No carbon fouling. Less heat in the action. Full powder burn in the case, means impossibly short barrels.

Anyway... The definition of a suppressor according to the NFA:

The term “Firearm Silencer” or “Firearm Muffler” means any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for the use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication. 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(24) 26 U.S.C., Chapter 53

Question:

If captive piston ammo prevents the report instead of diminishing/muffling, does that makes an actionable difference?

If the report is created at the muzzle from the powder gas pressure being released into atmosphere, than am I making a mistake to think that muffling sound here is the only real purview? It sounds like it to me. If so; than preventing the report from happening in the first should mean we are in the money. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong.

Could this fall in the same category as quiet burning powder, light bullets, longer barrels? Is it not the exact small idea?

But, this is the ATF we are talking about. These pedantic arguments sometimes work... but not always. Especially when unconstitutionally created Government agencies get involved.

Have any of you guys seen an opinion letter floating around out there?