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by sarchertech 285 days ago
A YouTube got 5 years in federal prison in 2023 for selling kits to convert a semi automatic rifle into a full automatic. In some cases you can be prosecuted just for possessing all the component parts to covert your rifle, much less selling them with instructions.

A tiny plastic 3d printed “glock switch” is itself actually classified as a machine gun under the law.