If I understood everything correctly from the "announcement" and the articles that are already being published about it as we speak, all the "rule change" did was reaffirm something the ATF already threw a hissy fit over a few years ago where they now require full "Buy, Build, Shoot" kits to be registered and sold as fire arms.
They threw a hissy fit with Polymer 80 over this a couple years ago and all they had to do to get around it was break up their kits into 3 or 4 "purchases" rather than sell them as a single "purchase item". So literally nothing has changed. Well technically if I understand it all correctly, they DO now demand you serialize any "ghost guns" when you sell them, but how would you even enforce that? All you have to do is claim it was sold before the rule change and no one can prove otherwise.
So basically this was just more fear mongering as a means of distracting us from everything big that's actually going on, like Hunter's laptop, Ukraine, Disney tanking, acceptance of gays and trans tanking, public schools and colleges tanking, people joining our side, etc. etc.
It's kind of pathetic really, how desperate they're getting to hang on to control of literally any narrative they push.
Exactly. The "innards" are still available, and the "ghost" part can be made at home on a 3D printer. Not sure how 3DP stands up in strength and fatigue vs. plastic injection molded, but I dont think anyone is expecting "infinite" life (>10,000 rounds) out of these guns. Polymer80 will just switch to selling the jigs with a thumb drive LOL.
Ive got a few hundred through my fdma19. Shoots smoother than my factory g19. Other gun files need no "firearm parts" like my fgc-9.