[Awake777]

The way the AWB worked in 1994, if you had a stripped lower that was purchased BEFORE the AWB, but not assembled until after the AWB, then were you required to assemble it in postban configuration, or could you configure it in preban configuration?

Do some people anticipate an advantage in hoarding stripped lowers in advance of perhaps an AWB coming down the line?

 

[6.8Vol]

I don't think it really mattered what the language of the bill said, except for manufacturers. Practically, there was no way ATF could effectively enforce that ban on individuals building their own guns. I may be wrong. I have eight built lowers now. The uppers will all be built the way I want them to be built as long as parts are available. AWB or not some crap legislation or treaty will show its ugly face, sooner than later. I doubt if I answered your question, but I am a law abiding
citizen so far.

 

[Renegade360]

The way I understood it, Legally, stripped lowers that were unassembled into rifles after the ban were not allowed to be built in pre-ban configuration. The Burden of prooof would be on them, to show that you did not have the weapon built prior to the ban. I.E. if they had sales records that you purchased your parts for that build after the ban was in place.

 

[ArtFWTx]

The way I understood it, Legally, stripped lowers that were unassembled into rifles after the ban were not allowed to be built in pre-ban configuration. The Burden of prooof would be on them, to show that you did not have the weapon built prior to the ban. I.E. if they had sales records that you purchased your parts for that build after the ban was in place.

That's my understanding of the last AWB. The problem is I doubt the same bill will be used so you have no way of forecasting what the next one will be like except probably more restrictive.