[Quote] § 479.102 How must firearms be identified?
(a) You, as a manufacturer, importer, or maker of a firearm, must legibly identify the firearm as follows:
(1) By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed) or placed on the frame or receiver thereof an individual serial number. The serial number must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered, or removed, and must not duplicate any serial number placed by you on any other firearm. For firearms manufactured, imported, or made on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of the serial number must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch and in a print size no smaller than 1/16 inch; and
(2) By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed), or placed on the frame, receiver, or barrel thereof certain additional information. This information must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered or removed. For firearms manufactured, imported, or made on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of this information must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch. The additional information includes:
(i) The model, if such designation has been made;
(ii) The caliber or gauge;
(iii) Your name (or recognized abbreviation) and also, when applicable, the name of the foreign manufacturer or maker;
(iv) In the case of a domestically made firearm, the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the manufacturer maintain your place of business, or where you, as the maker, made the firearm; and
(v) In the case of an imported firearm, the name of the country in which it was manufactured and the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the importer maintain your place of business. For additional requirements relating to imported firearms, see Customs regulations at 19 CFR part 134.[\Quote]
That’s what the OP is asking. If you F1 the SBR, you can put your trust info on the barrel. The lower is already marked with the S/N which you are allowed to use.
If you F1 an 80% lower, then you, the individual (maker?) would have to engrave the S/N on the lower receiver.
Okay, if this forum cannot agree, I won't trust the NFA to agree, but everyone agrees that "the lower is legit".
Next question:
How will NFA laser engraving look on FDE/Titanium/ODG colored anodizing? Does it just cut to bare aluminum, or is it like the CAGE codes we see on ACOG's and stuff, and can they do colors other than white, or...?
I think the passage is being misinterpreted in this case and I pointed out where the misinterpretation was occurring. I may be wrong. But I don't think I am.
This is one reason we don't see any production ARs with mfg data on the upper receiver or the barrel.
You see it on bolt action rifles. You don't see it on ARs.
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It is my opinion that you don't see it on the barrel from, manufacturers because if the barrel is removed, then the firearm is no-longer registered. However, with an SBR, if the barrel is removed...then it doesn't NEED to be registered or denoted as an SBR anymore, because it's not one. When the barrel is again placed on the firearm, BOOM! It's again denoted as an SBR. The barrel is married to that serialized lower, and only when that lower and that barrel are together, is it a properly manufactured and denoted SBR. It does marry that barrel/barrel length and configuration to that lower, is the downside. The upside is it keeps your lower 100% clean, if you wish to swap barrels and flip it or go to a non-NFA friendly area.
This is my understanding and interpretation, but you do this for a living, so I defer.
Last edited by WS6; 11-15-18 at 00:43.
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