While I’m not a fan of gun availability, I’m happy about the potential of projects like this one to clarify the legal situation around both weapons and distributed manufacturing.
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This isn’t about distributed manufacturing, as these things aren’t intended to be used by manufacturers, but hobbyists.
There have always been hobbyist making their own guns or other weapons (swords, knives, bows and arrows, etc). With firearms the thing is they can’t SELL the weapons they make. Well, they can’t “engage in business”. If they made one and sold it 10 years later, that’s ok. If they made several a year and sold them that year, that would fall under the umbrella of “engaged in business” and they would require a manufacturers license from the ATF.
There are even people who get their Class 3 SOT license and they they can make anything they want. Full autos, silencers, etc. I have a friend in Houston who has one and he gets to make all sorts of neat things. But again, they are under the eye of the ATF, any thing made that falls under the NFA has to be registered and only sold to people who are approved by the ATF.
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