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Register nothing. If you register 1000 "80% receivers" they just count you towards the success of this program. They don't know aI am waffling between the ever popular "register nothing" plan, and the "get an 07 FFL then stamp the whole plumbing aisle". Wonder what they would say if I registered 1000 "80% receivers".
I don’t want to get into the weeds about how to comply, I don’t want people to comply. There’s a “grace” period of something like six months in this law to get unserialized shit serialized and afterward REGISTERED. I think registration would continue afterward for unserialized firearms to be brought into the state, also it exempts licenses gunsmiths but requires them to serialize and register “unfinished firearm frames and receivers” . At what point in manufacture, who knows. Certainly not the bill’s authors. Possession of 80%s by normal people would be illegal, and you couldn’t legally build any gun much less an 80%.This Active bill you posted in the first post of this thread absolutely does not "require serialization and registration of unfinished firearm frames or receivers." It clearly states that possession of such unfinished frames or receiver would become a felony under the bill:
You can't register an unfinished frame or receiver to stay clear of this law, because mere possession of one would be a felony as soon as you have it.
The press release obviously has no force of law, but it absolutely does signal what Andy is shooting for. He certainly reads press releases like this before they go out, because he's a micro-managing moron.
However, to say that the "preamble has no legal force (although it could be referred to in interpreting the law's purpose)." is really to say that it does have the force of law, depending upon how a cop, DA, or judge interprets it.
This is the reason a bill has a Purpose laid out, so that citizens, cops, DAs, and judges know the point of the law before they start deciding the scope of it. I wouldn't bet a freaking donut that any of this bill would be ignored when NY wants to make an example of a brand new, 80% possessing NYer who hasn't even built an actual gun out of the damn thing is swinging in the dock.
You can't register an 80% NOW in NY, because its not yet a firearm, gun, or weapon. And you won't be able to register one if this bill passes either, because it will be a felony to even have it, let alone use tools on it.
Register nothing.