Here is some updated video of the ATF raid on Ares Armor earlier today (see our earlier story here). ATF took this action after Ares had obtained a restraining order against the agency. At issue is the bureau’s desire to confiscate a huge customer list maintained by the business, as well as some firearm parts. The parts had previously been determined by the ATF to not constitute a firearm.
was requested by Ares Armor to forestall a raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in which inventory and customer records were targeted for seizure. That ATF action was in response to the company selling so-called “80 percent lower receivers” manufactured by EP Armory, itself the subject of a raid and seizures over parts which have previously been determined by ATF not to be a firearm, as further machining operations must be taken by customers to turn them into functional components.
As explained by St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Kurt Hofmann, “EP Armory’s polymer 80% lower receivers have a unique feature in that the material to be removed by milling and/or drilling is a different color from the material that is to be left untouched — thus making it easy to do the machining, even without a jig.”
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“I look for ATF Firearms Technology Branch ‘hocus-pocus’ to come to the forefront … because they will claim the ‘marking’ of these critical holes will ‘make’ this plastic chunk a firearm,” an industry source told Gun Rights Examiner. “It’s FTB’s nature to do so.
“Now that this has gone viral, the ATF and U.S. Attorney have no choice but to go forward with a criminal case come hell or high water,” the source continued, also predicting “other manufacturers will get a spontaneous revision letter effectively changing the rules.
Source: Examiner
Owner should have shot them
LET THE LINES BE DRAWN
the should have moved the 80% lowers also nothing on the grounds to cause them to be there
We need to stop this now by any means possible.
damn commies doing their thing… DOWN WITH BO AND HIS FOLLOWERS !!! Firing squad would be too easy !
tell them jerks to mind their own business , that is private info & it is not yours!!!
And so it begins
some day one of these store owners is going to rig his store with C4, then the $#%&!@* WILL hit the fan…
The client list is the real pearl sought after and the raid in violation of restraining order pure contempt of court by ATF.The judge should review this video and throw ALL PARTICIPANTS into jail and issue stiff fines and dismissals from ATF with a lifetime ban on employment as LEO.
3D PRINTER and $#%&!@* them all