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I took the opportunity today to take my M4's and a couple of clones and remove the stock mag tubes. I did a redneck vise (two by fours and wood clamps) and managed to get 5 guns separated from their stock tubes. I ended up using my bare hands, which cost me a little skin on three fingers after 5 tubes. But it is done, now to wait for all the appropriate hardware to show up so I can put them in final configuration. I am going to take two of the stocks and fore ends and have them hydro dipped with a walnut wood finish. I know it is a little cornball, but I saw a meme with an m4 wood stock and wanted to try the hydrodipping to see what it looks like.

ATF has the right to audit any dealer’s records to confirm they are correctly processing the paperwork and keeping the records required. I had a class 3 FFL some 20 years ago. While they can show up at your place of business unannounced for that audit, they always made an appointment. They are not free to wander the premises, they’d need probable cause and a warrant to root through your property. Bad record keeping could be a cause for that warrant. They will see a gun in the bound book and will ask you to provide it to them, confirm it matches the description on the form 4, and then ask for the next. They had a policy of auditing class 3 dealers on an annual basis. But this process, although more often then “regular” dealers, is the same for both. When I sold my last title 2 and noted its disposal in my bound book I did not renew my Special Occupational Tax. Then ATF came for their annual audit they stated I had not renewed my SOT. I indicated I no longer had title 2s on the books and that was the end of that. I kept my “standard” FFL for a few more years and then closed that as well and shipped the bound book off to the FFL out of business address. As an individual or non-licensee who happens to own a title 2 firearm, your rights are the same as any other gun owning individual. Probable cause is required to search your home.

The misinformation with title 2 firearms never ceases to amaze me. It is only a short barreled shotgun when it has a short barrel. Put an 18 on it and it is not a short barreled shotgun. Take it anywhere a shotgun is legal, even sell it with the 18 if you like. NFA would like to know it’s been “converted” back to a title 1, but that isn’t even necessary. Unlike machine guns and NFA’s “once a machine gun always a machine gun” position, an SBS or SBR is only a title 2 when configured as a title 2. You do not give up any rights. .gov can’t come into your home anytime they wish. Still America folks, probable cause and a warrant is necessary to enter your home.

Steel and titanium have arrived, I'll be conducting design tests over the next couple weeks. Ammo is slim picking up here, I was told by a local gun shop that no ammo at all has come from USA into Canada since January. I bought up the last few hundred rounds of target load that they had, otherwise empty shelves...

Frankly speaking, the average homeowner confronting a 2AM break in, half asleep and in a defensive posture, won't know the difference between 14" or 18", nor would it matter. One is no more or less effective than the other at 2AM. For the "grunt or jarhead" going door to door in an offensive posture, yeah the 14" is a plus. Then there is the NFA issue. Once you have registered your once 18" barreled M4 to a 14" barreled M4, it will forever be an NFA item. Simply put, you can't just swap the barrel back to 18" and hope to sell it to the local gun shop or gunbroker. It will have to go to a willing FFL class 2 or 3 sot. Having a 14" is mostly a status symbol for most of us, and yes, I have a small NFA stamp collection, and no, I probably would not go that route again. My 2 cents.........................

WOW! You asked a question and I gave you my answer. No need to get pissy as your last response was "childish". I'm not saying your wrong as the boys in blue maybe taught differently on firearm readiness. I have served in the Army over 32 years and when we carry whether in theater or if we carry in garrison our weapon is chambered on safety and no different in my home. I can't count the times I have had to sleep with a chambered weapon. To each their own I guess.