Robert K. Merting - Attorney at Law
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Most of my clients are familiar with the process of applying to the ATF to transfer or make a firearm controlled by the National Firearms Act. Since July of 2016, every application to transfer or make a firearm has required a copy of the appropriate Forms to be submitted to the chief law enforcement officer Read More …
Federal law has long prohibited illegal users of controlled substances from possessing firearms. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) (prohibiting from firearm possession any person “who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)”). Who is an Unlawful User Historically, an unlawful user included Read More …
This past Independence Day President Trump signed into law his Big Beautiful Bill™. What better way to celebrate our independence from the overbearing mother land than with a brand new 940-page law? National Firearms Act Rollercoaster The new law affects the NFA, and what exactly would be done has been a rollercoaster. The House version originally Read More …
If you are digging into this article, I am assuming you have already read about ‘Privately Made Firearms’ and have a handle on what that term means. The question here, succinctly stated, is: Can a Privately Made Firearm be made from an existing serialized frame or receiver? I’m sure the instinctual answer is NO: “PMFs Read More …
Can you define a firearm “frame or receiver”? Do you think it is the “part of a firearm which provides housing for the hammer, bolt or breechblock, and firing mechanism, and which is usually threaded at its forward portion to receive the barrel”? 27 CFR § 478.11. If you answered yes, then a strict construction. . . Read More …