Buy a rifle out of state: FA10 within 7 days
Buy an AR stripped lower: FA10 within 7 days of when it can go "Bang!"
Buy a full rifle out of state that needs modification for AWB compliance: take it apart and ship the bits to your favorite gunsmith(s) to neuter it, then FA10 within 7 days of when you put the "fixed" bits back together.
OK, those are the easier ones:
How 'bout this hypothetical (which I'm sure has happened)
Say I buy a 1911 frame to build myself from my own mix if special parts. It takes me a year, but I finally get it done. It goes "bang", so I send in an FA10 within 7 days of that first "bang" capability.
But I'm unhappy with the slide and hammer and seer and barrel, so I strip the gun down to its frame again to get new bits. I sell the slide/barrel/hammer/sear etc, leaving me with a raw frame. After another few months I realize I'll never build this fancy frame up properly, and decide to sell it. The frame *had been* FA10'd before, but it can no longer go "Bang!". When I sell the frame, do I need to FA10 it? My instinct says, "no", because it's not a gun by MA definitions (can't go "bang")
Buy an AR stripped lower: FA10 within 7 days of when it can go "Bang!"
Buy a full rifle out of state that needs modification for AWB compliance: take it apart and ship the bits to your favorite gunsmith(s) to neuter it, then FA10 within 7 days of when you put the "fixed" bits back together.
OK, those are the easier ones:
How 'bout this hypothetical (which I'm sure has happened)
Say I buy a 1911 frame to build myself from my own mix if special parts. It takes me a year, but I finally get it done. It goes "bang", so I send in an FA10 within 7 days of that first "bang" capability.
But I'm unhappy with the slide and hammer and seer and barrel, so I strip the gun down to its frame again to get new bits. I sell the slide/barrel/hammer/sear etc, leaving me with a raw frame. After another few months I realize I'll never build this fancy frame up properly, and decide to sell it. The frame *had been* FA10'd before, but it can no longer go "Bang!". When I sell the frame, do I need to FA10 it? My instinct says, "no", because it's not a gun by MA definitions (can't go "bang")