RE GUNSMITHING SERVICES by two beginner students without a BATF LICENSE. in Prescott, Arizona For Sale
I am guessing you missed that part or slept through the part in Class where you are told By Danny Peterson at the college that you must have a license before you may actively preform gunsmithing for a profit under your own DBA. LLC. or private.
Best READ THE LAW STUPID.. this included the "former Cop" who cleans guns on the side.
http://www.atf.gov/regulations-rulings/rulings/atf-rulings/atf-ruling-xxxx-10.htm
ATF Rul. xxxx-10
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has received inquiries from firearms industry members asking whether licensed dealer-gunsmiths who would be engaged in the business of repairing, modifying, embellishing, refurbishing, or installing parts in or on firearms for, or on behalf of a licensed importer or manufacturer are required to be licensed as manufacturers and abide by the requirements imposed on manufacturers.
In recent years, licensed firearms importers and manufacturers have contracted certain firearms manufacturing activities on their behalf to specialized licensed firearms manufacturers. Such activities include applying special coatings and treatments to firearms (e.g., bluing, anodizing, powder-coating, plating, polishing, heat/chemical treating). This has caused confusion over which importers and manufacturers are required to identify/ mark firearms and maintain permanent records of importation or manufacture. For this reason, licensed importers and manufacturers have asked whether licensed dealer-gunsmiths, who are not required to mark firearms and keep production records, may engage in such manufacturing activities on their behalf.
The Gun Control Act of xxxx (GCA), Title 18, United States Code (U.S.C.), section 923(a), provides, in part, that no person shall engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms until he has filed an application with and received a license to do so from the Attorney General. A ?firearm? is defined by 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(3) to include any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive, and the frame or receiver of any such weapon. The term ?manufacturer? is defined by 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(10) as any person engaged in the business of manufacturing firearms or ammunition for purposes of sale or distribution. As applied to a manufacturer of firearms, the term ?engaged in the business? is defined by 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(21)(A) and 27 CFR 478.11, as a ?person who devotes time, attention, and labor to manufacturing firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the sale or distribution of the firearms manufactured.? The term ?dealer? is defined by 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(11)(B) and 27 CFR 478.11 to include ?any person engaged in the business of repairing firearms or of making or fitting special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to firearms ?? (i.e., a gunsmith). As applied to a gunsmith, the term ?engaged in the business? is defined by 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(21)(D) and 27 CFR 478.11 as a ?person who devotes time, attention, and labor to engaging in such activity as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit ??