Gun kit, parts shop sues ATF, Justice Department
A gun kit and parts business in Prospect claims, in a lawsuit, that it was left with no choice but to suspend all retail sales after federal agents served a cease and desist order on May 9.
Not An LLC, which does business as JSD Supply, located on New Castle Road in Prospect, filed the suit against the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Justice Department in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.
JSD, which sells kits to build guns and gun parts, claims in the suit that the cease and desist order is the ATF’s most recent iteration of “secret and unannounced policy changes” aimed at gun kits, parts and manufacturing tools that are not regulated by the Gun Control Act of 1968.
The suit specifies the 80% receivers and defines them as incomplete and unfinished firearm frames or receivers that buyers can make into functional firearms with additional parts and tools. The ATF refers to 80% receivers as blanks or castings, according to the suit.
“It has been defendant ATF’s longstanding position that receiver blanks that do not meet the definition of a firearm are not subject to regulation under the Gun Control Act. Eight-percent frames and receivers have become increasingly popular with the firearms community by those who wish to lawfully manufacture their own privately made firearm, but without having to do so from scratch,” JSD argues in the suit.
