Gotta play by the rules, regardless. Frankly, I'm shocked a company as mainstream as Stag let this get away from them. ESPECIALLY given the current political climate re: guns.
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Gotta play by the rules, regardless. Frankly, I'm shocked a company as mainstream as Stag let this get away from them. ESPECIALLY given the current political climate re: guns.
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I would bet they have been sloppy for a long time, and it finally caught up with them. I was looking in the articles to see mention of previous violations, but didn't see it. I would still be willing to bet they have had numerous violations during previous ATF inspections, but never were severely punished.
Lesson to others, keep your books tight, hire good compliance people, etc....do not give them an excuse!
I recall when this first came up last year that the report was that they were producing the lowers and moving them into the warehouse, but they were not entering the serial numbers into their records in any sort of timely manner. I.e., they were stamping serial numbers on the lowers but not making the corresponding entry into their records for each one produced, so they had no documentation of those 3000 lowers that the ATF counted in the warehouse. It's been a while, though, so I can't confirm if that was explained in an article or if that was word of mouth from a local forum member.
Dave
The Constitution specifically lists what government may do. Dabbling in the firearms business(other than barring states from setting up tariffs and so on which goes for any product) including demanding serial numbers or other manufacturing techniques isn't listed in their allowed functions at all.
No one forced Stag or any other manufacture to get into the business of manufacturing guns. By getting all the licenses through the ATF you're agreeing to play by their rules.
I don't get why people want to argue the legality of it. They got machines shops that can easily converted to manufacture something that doesn't require ATF overhead and still be profitable. If they want to be a gun manufacturers then they've agree to play with the ATF.
People want to argue the legality of it because we should all be arguing against these politicians who make these laws and regs making it difficult to acquire or outright preventing citizens from having products specifically protected by the constitution. In the country as created by our founding fathers, serial numbers should not get stag in trouble and I think anyone who agrees with Connecticut encourages the nanny state.
I don't think people are arguing your point, it's just a reminder that these laws shouldn't exist in the first place.
Another example is NFA. 10.5" rifles should no longer be NFA items based on the intent of the law, and the whole thing is unconstitutional IMO, but we still play by the rules because it's much easier and more enjoyable to pay $200 and wait 6mo then to Try to stick it to the man and fight through the courts. But we still don't think it's right.