because it is designed to dry up the parts market in NY - it is also just more nonsense that walls in normal legal activity with felonies. Imagine if any other right was treated this way. You have free speech, but let's say we determine your protest is illegal because you filed your permits wrong, or someone on your picket line stopped to tie their shoe and blocked the sidewalk, you just committed a felony.
Meanwhile yesterday in NY the Senate just passed a bill that makes it illegal to assemble a rifle, even from a serialized lower obtained from an FFL.
Well shit, I guess you’ll never be able to take apart a gun to clean it
there is a maintenance carveout - but if you just want to break your upper to show your buddy how a pivot pin works, you just committed a felony.
How would that even be enforceable? They'd never know if you built it or bought it.
because it is designed to dry up the parts market in NY - it is also just more nonsense that walls in normal legal activity with felonies. Imagine if any other right was treated this way. You have free speech, but let's say we determine your protest is illegal because you filed your permits wrong, or someone on your picket line stopped to tie their shoe and blocked the sidewalk, you just committed a felony.