How is the handbook better than the plainly written law? Especially the part that you posted that has nothing to do with the engraving requirements?
The BATFE is almost as bad about passing on bad information as the IRS when it comes to compliance with the laws & regulations. Neither of them will accept responsibility for YOUR failure to adhere to the proscribed requirements either.
The handbook is not better than the law. But, even "plain written law" at times takes the U.S. Supreme Court to fiqure out what it means. Therfore, I would rather depend on a legal academics' interpretation than my own. In the case of the NFA handbook, it is the ATF themselves who did the interpretation of their own law and made a handbook to help us understand the law. Now i don't see why i'm getting a hard time from people about that reasoning. To answer your question about my quote, if you read through chapter six if gives specific instructions on what you are to do as a non-licensee making a NFA weapon. Then, if you are required to put your info on the gun, it directs you to chapter 7.4 for engraving requirements. Who knows, maybe its written wrong on purpose. The letter from the ATF thats claimed you do not need to mark the gun with your own name was contradicting to the follow up letter stating that you do. This shows that the law can be interpreted both was by even the ATF. Yes, marking the gun is the safer way to go, but i still think maybe anti-gun Houchens is giving us a runaround.
Truer words have never been spoken. ATF contradicts themselves all of the time.
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