DEAD PARKERS

[Greg Miller]

Any firearm except for a NFA (Machine Gun) can be disabled and if done in a manner acceptable to the BATFE Technical Branch it would cease to be a firearm under Federal law. Machine guns can be disabled DEWAT, but still require registration on a form 5.

If you want a Paperweight, first step is to speak to technical branch. Not a big deal, just some paperwork and a bandsaw. My inclination would be to cut it into two frames right down the middle lengthwise, and have two paperweights.

If it were me, I would just accept that it is a firearm, and keep it intact for the day when it might be restored. But if the frames are for some reason, unsafe, the above is how you would go about changing its legal status.

Thanks- if I had to make a "two-fer" from a Parker or Smith frame/receiver (I have a few with parts for those "rainy days"--I might pass on the bandsaw and try out my new shop "playtoy" a plasma arc cutter, used 120 psi line air pressure, and will slice through ferrous or non-ferrous metals like poop runs through a goose (thank you Gen. Patton- Sir)--

I once asked Buck Hamlin why he thought you had to ship a receiver through the FFL channels- strip all the parts from a 12 VH no. 2 frame receiver, how do you make it fire a round? Even with the parts intact you still need the barrels to contain the shells. I love his answer- he told me "Well, I guess the ol' BATF thinks you'd use it like a hammer to smack someone upside the head"_

[Pittypatdugan]

Yes all 4 receivers had to be logged in by the FFL . That was not a burden in light of all the freedoms we all enjoy in this wonderful country.

PDD