Don't know what to think - Polymer80 raided by ATF

[Martinjmpr]

Here is my suspicion...if you sell a 80% kit it is an 80% kit...but if you add other completed parts to that same kit.......it changes the percentage of how much of the kit is completed. So an 80% lower has 80% completed but if you add a completed upper as part of the kit then 92% of the kit is now completed...

In other words the ATF is going to play semantics with this.

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. The 80% refers to the lower receiver, nothing else.

It doesn't matter what else you include, the only part that is considered a "firearm" under applicable Federal laws is the lower so whether you include an upper, stock, etc is irrelevant.

My guess is that Polymer is selling "80% receivers" PLUS all the parts to finish that 80% into a finished receiver (jigs, drill bits, templates, etc.) THAT is what makes it a firearm in the eyes of the ATF.

Is it weak? Maybe, maybe not but agency "interpretations" are given wide latitude by courts.