Illegal Machine Guns (Leaked ATF Internal Training Video.)

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Very Very Special Agent Beazit is back, this time he is training up his fellow ATF officers on how the ATF decides what is and what is not a machine gun. (This isn't a real leaked internal training video from the ATF, it's a cartoon pretend ATF man ... for those of you who are a little slow.)

While what you see in the video is not real, it is based very much on reality. These are all real examples of things the ATF has claimed are machine guns. Nothing in the video or in associated materials like this description should be construed as legal advice. Despite being dead wrong on the law, the ATF can and does F people's lives up pretty regularly on a whim.

For the fun stuff:
In the United States v Prince the ATF claimed that flat pieces of metal were firearms because they had lines lasered on them... the district court disagreed. The ATF appealed the case but did NOT appeal the ruling that the items were not considered to be NFA. So they 100% lost on that issue and accepted their loss. The ATF promptly ignored this loss and just continued on designating drawings as firearms.

"The court finds that the metal flat shipped to Prince is not a firearm. The court carefully considered the expert testimony of Agent Adam Galbraith, and reviewed the material submitted by the government concerning ATF opinions. However, the court simply does not believe that a flat piece of metal with laser perforations and holes constitutes a "receiver," i.e., a "firearm." Rather, the flat piece of metal is somewhat akin to a piece of paper with lines drawn on it as a guide to make a paper airplane. Although making the paper airplane might be the intended use, it is not an airplane until it is properly folded. Until that time, it is a patterned piece of paper. Simply put, this court has no evidentiary or legal basis for holding that a flat piece of metal with laser perforations and some holes constitutes, ultimately, a "firearm." "

In United States v Thompson Center Arms the ATF claimed that a collection of parts, which could eventually become an NFA item, were an NFA item prior to being made into an NFA item... Sound familiar? It is exactly the same kind of reasoning that leads to drawings being classed as NFA items. The Supreme Court disagreed, on the basis that the items which the ATF claimed were to be "made" into NFA items could also be made into non-NFA items. Since there is a reason to own the parts other than NFA construction, the parts in question were not NFA until they were actually assembled into an NFA item. Think about that and how that compares to the Auto-keycard and the cosmetic "felony hole" on AR15s. Both of those items have legitimate purposes other than the construction of an NFA item. See more on the Thompson Center case here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm...