Originally Posted by
Hmac
I've never heard of it. Last year we did some Bomb Squad demo for ATF (ammo). ATF sent an agent along. When we do Bomb Squad exercises, we always take the opportunity to shoot since it's a military facility and we demo on the artillery range which is also cleared for small arms use. In fact, we demo a lot of the stuff by shooting at it, like expired/leaking dynamite, old TNT bricks, damaged aerial display shells, so he enjoyed the shooting. In casual conversation, I was kind of amazed at a) how little knowledge and b) how little interest he had in NFA in general and c) how little interest in my SBR (privately owned) in particular.
Now, here in Minnesota, registration of SBRs with NFA is not part of the legislation...as far as the state is concerned, they don't have to be stamped (some states reqruie this). So even local cops, who are likely to be even MORE ignorant of NFA, have no interest in SBRs, and even if they could recognize it as such or knew what an SBR was, would be highly unlikely to inspect, or even give a crap, since there is no applicable state law. For them to address my SBR legality would require them to try to be enforcing Federal law. Rare to see a cop that has any interest in that for something that has so little impact. I suspect that that might be different it it was a rocket launcher or machine gun.
Bottom line, from a practical standpoint, it's highly unlikely that anyone ever will be inspecting your SBR for NFA compliance.