Originally Posted by hookeye
Originally Posted by ldholton
Originally Posted by gunswizard
Local guy was building AR's from Palmetto lowers, last week the ATF swept in unannounced and seized 500 of them. Broke into his house when he wasn't home, demanded the combinations to his safes or they'd take the cutting torch to them. Left a stack of paperwork explaining the charges and how they'd return the guns.
Sounds like he was busted for "manufacturing" ....

If the lowers complete how could he be busted for manufacturing?

The " gun " is done

Assembling and or selling outside of the law is what he proly got nailed for.

My guess is his stuff was in SBR config or he did straw.
It wouldn’t need to be in SBR configuration. I obviously disagree with the “law” but if he were selling them without an FFL in that quantity he was probably raided for being a dealer without an FFL.