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AndyC wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:

AndyC wrote:922r-compliance is the original assembler/builder/manufacturer's problem - not the buyer.

No, I am looking at it from a different viewpoint. You can take a gun that left the importer as a fully legal weapon, and remove enough US parts to make it now illegal. If you sell that now modified & illegal gun to the next buyer in a private sale, it is still illegal and it is now that buyer's problem.

I understand your point, but the OP merely mentioned buying a fiream from the manufacturer - you're talking about an entirely different set of circumstances.

In your scenario, while the 2nd buyer would likely forfeit the firearm, the seller - who deliberately removed the compliance-parts - would be the one who might come under ATF scrutiny.

922r seems to be more of an add-on charge; I don't know if there's ever been a case where 922r has been used by itself.

Funny you should say that, Andy. When I went searching around the Internet after reading some of the comments above, several people on other forums (some of whom at least seemed to know the law reasonably well) were stating the same thing about add-on charge vs. stand alone. And the consensus (for what its worth) seemed to be the same conclusion you came to.