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Mandatory Firearm Serialization Comes to Maine

Maine’s LD 1126 goes into effect in January 2027. This means personally made firearms (PMFs) must now be serialized. Combine this with the ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F, and it is a significant change in the legal landscape for those who choose to make their own firearms.

DISCLAIMER: This is MY and ONLY MY interpretation of the laws, motivations and impacts. I strongly urge you to do your own research AND consult a qualified firearm attorney.

ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F: The SUPER SIMPLIFIED version of this is unfinished receivers are now considered actual firearms. It also dictates the content/format of any serial number applied by a FFL. It MUST be the FFL’s shortened number (8 digits) – plus a unique to-the-FFL number. The number must be recorded in the FFL’s A&D (Acquisition & Disposition) book.

Prior to this new rule, serialization could be completed with the name of the person who ‘manufactured’ it, along with the city/state of manufacture, model, caliber and a unique to them serial number. The ATF didn’t like this and called them “fictitious serial numbers” since they weren’t officially registered.

Maine’s LD 1126: Again, the SUPER SIMPLIFIED version says you may not possess an unfinished frame or receiver unless it has been imprinted with a serial number applied by a FFL. It also requires additional records be kept by the FFL on the firearms serialized.

Neither the ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F or Maine’s LD1126 require a 4473 and NICS background check to return a newly engraved ‘firearm’ back to the person who brought it in.

Does having a serial number engraved on your PMF put it on a registry? No, but actually yes.

The ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F now treats frames and receivers the same as commercially made firearms which can be traced from the manufacturer to the distributor to the retailer to the first owner. If Universal Background Checks are in place in your state, it continues on to the current owner.

This means a personally made firearm is now traceable to the original owner since the first part of the serial number is the FFL who engraved it, and that FFL has the owner’s name & address recorded in their A&D book.

By statue, the ATF is not allowed to create an electronic database of owners and their firearms. However, the ATF has already admitted to having done exactly this but claim to have put safeguards in place to prevent it from being used contrary to the statue’s ‘intent’, such as being able to look up a person and see all the firearms they own. You can believe that one if you’d like.

Now combine this with a change in FFL retention rules. FFL’s used to be able to dispose of all 4473 records after 20 years. Now, they must retain them in perpetuity and turn them into the ATF when they go out of business. The ATF has also been copying 4473 and A&D records outside of any specific investigations during their normal inspections of FFL’s.

States like California already have their own firearm registry.

So… yes, serializing your firearm ‘registers’ it to you.

Should you serialize your firearm/receiver/frame?

One of the reasons many choose to manufacture their own is to have a firearm the government doesn’t know about. This goes back to the unfortunate truth; registration leads to confiscation. It always has and always will. There is no other reason for firearm registration to exist.

But then there is the reality of life. Not everyone is willing to risk state or federal criminal charges for a self-manufactured firearm. Everyone must look at their own life, job, family, finances, community and myriad other factors to decide if they want risk a potential arrest, prosecution, fines, incarceration or potentially the loss of their Second Amendment rights.

I offer no value judgements here. Everyone must do what they feel is right for themselves. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Personally, I believe both the ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F and Maine’s LD 1126 are unconstitutional overreaches and should be repealed. If our representatives and courts were doing their jobs and supporting the Constitution and all the sections of the Bill of Rights, this would never have been a problem. But this is what we have to deal with right now.

ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F – https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/definition-frame-or-receiver

Maine’s LD 1126 – https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0745&item=7&snum=132

Bob

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Measuring the Success of Gun Control

Two bits of information came out recently which illustrate the utter failure of gun control. Gun Control, Inc’s annual survey of the states’ gun control laws placed California in the top spot again with an “A” rating. We now also have the FBI’s report showing California had the most “active shooter incidents” for the five-year period from 2020 to 2024.

Like most people I would trust many things (a drink from Bill Cosby, an email from a Nigerian prince, gas station nachos) more than I trust the FBI to accurately report just about anything, but this isn’t the first time they’ve reported California with the most active shooter incidents, previously putting them in nationwide lead from 2020-2023. Note: A “FBI Trusted Statistics” article coming soon.

But let’s start off with the anti-gun Gifford’s 2025 Gun Safety Grades Across the Country. Their annual scorecard ranks states based on their assessment of “gun safety”. #1 ranked California with an A score, is their shining example of what a gun safety means. Giffords says… “Policies are assigned point values based on how effective they are at reducing gun violence…”.

Here is a PARTIAL list of what California has implemented. Universal background checks, strict limitations on the make/model/type of firearms available for purchase, a 10-day waiting period for purchases, minimum age restrictions, bans on so-called “assault weapons”, “large capacity magazines” and “ghost guns”, mandatory registration and state firearm sales record retention, safe storage laws, firearm dealer regulation and licensing at the state, county and local level, gun industry liability and responsibility laws, severe restrictions on public carry of concealed firearms by licensed individuals along with increased permit requirements, restrictions and licensing on conceal carry instructors, ammunition background checks, extreme risk protection orders (red flag laws), domestic violence gun laws, firearm relinquishment requirements, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed for classroom defense, funding for state sponsored community violence intervention and gun violence research.

You might think they’ve got every possible gun control law already in effect. Think again! In 2026 California bans so-called “machinegun-convertible pistols”. An online parts ban law targets everything from firearm components and accessories to tools, 3D printers, and even digital files and code. FFL’s face new annual mandatory training requirements for employes who handle firearms. Mandatory reporting of lost or stolen firearms expands to include “precursor” parts. A new three-firearms-per-month law comes into effect, even though courts have already ruled this is unconstitutional. Queued up for 2027, firearm barrels will be treated as a complete firearm requiring a background check from a dealer for sales and transfers.

Where are the new and improved laws that will stop a criminal/thug/terrorist from using an illegal firearm in a crime? Nowhere. Because all the laws are focused on the law-abiding firearm owner, the ones who care to follow the law. Given the gun control’s focus on restricting and eliminating the Second Amendment protected rights of law-abiding citizens, the conflicting numbers are no surprise.

But let’s be honest here. Do-nothing-for-public-safety gun control laws don’t fail by themselves. They are aided by a political and legal environment that refuses to hold criminals accountable for their actions. Politicians create laws to release those convicted of crimes from incarceration and minimize any potential penalties for newly committed crimes.

Soft-on-crime prosecutors using their ‘discretion’ refuse to prosecute wide ranges of crimes. Those who are arrested are immediately released and the very few who are convicted are given slap-on-the-wrist sentences. This leads to ever increasing lawlessness and violence in the communities as the criminals realize there is very little preventing them from escalating their crime and violence.

Any why shouldn’t criminals commit crime and violence? Their intended victims have been conveniently disarmed by the state so they know they can act with impunity. So, the FBI’s numbers showing California leading the country in active shooter incidents make perfect sense.

What do the numbers and rankings from Gun Control, Inc. mean? To be honest, absolutely nothing. Their in-house “research” is carefully manipulated and manufactured to make it appear the gun control laws they are pushing are going to keep you safe. Independent research, which is NOT paid for by the anti-gun lobby groups and Gun Control, Inc., show the opposite. The most violent, dangerous and deadly areas of the country are those with the tightest gun control laws.

By the way: In thirteen states the Giffords gun control group gave an “F” grade to have had no mass public shootings since 2010 — Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.

And California is a living, breathing – – – bleeding, suffering, dying example of this.

Bob

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Just Because They Say It…

Free speech is a wonderful thing, a natural, God-given right of all Americans protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. But with free speech, you inevitably get people who ignore reality and make up their own fantasy world. This is what we face when anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment politicians start talking about guns and “gun violence” in the United States. Just because they say it, doesn’t mean it’s true.

In a recent speech in Brazil, our 44^thPresident made the following comment:

“Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time —without much if any regulation, they can buy it over the internet, they can buy machine guns.”

Our former President of course knows better, but as an ardent foe of the Second Amendment protected right for individuals to keep and bear arms, he gets to make up his own imagined world where only he, his government and other elitists can have firearms.

Anyone who has actually purchased a firearm knows he is full of the worst kind of BS. The vast majority of firearms are purchased from FFL (Federal Firearm Licensee) dealers who must run a background check before delivering a firearm. And while it is true you can purchase a firearm over the Internet, the part he’s leaving out is unless you are a FFL, it has to be sent TO a FFL to do a background check, just like any other firearm purchase. If you are a felon, domestic abuser, convicted drug user, adjudicated as a “mental defective”, illegal alien, dishonorably discharged from the military or have renounced your U.S. citizenship, you cannot be sold a firearm.

Can you buy a machine gun? Yes, but thanks to the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Hughes Amendment in 1986 there are a finite number of legally transferable fully automatic firearms available in our country. Those examples run in the 10’s of thousands of dollars and require an ATF tax stamp and extensive background checks and notifications, a process that takes many, many months.

Yet if you take our former President’s statement at face value, it sounds like anyone in the country can log onto Amazon, order a fully automatic firearm and have it delivered to their home in two days, presumably for free if it’s Prime.

It’s not like our former President hasn’t made up his own reality before. He’s infamously said “… this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.” Of course, you have to keep in mind when they compare worldwide “gun violence” rates; they pick and choose the countries to include so as to make the US look far worse in comparison. They preface their comparison list by referring to it as the list of “advanced” countries. As an example, our southern neighbor is not on this list. However, if you look at worldwide violent death rates, Mexico ranks 15th and the United States ranks 85th out of 172 nations. Remember, if you are setting up your own gun control reality, adjectives matter.

California’s current governor / wannabe dictator recently added his half cent to the debate following a horrific incident and decided to perpetuate the former President’s myth by saying “Recognize and reconcile that we live in the only country in the world where anything like this happens.”

Very sadly, neither of these men is telling the truth. Violence, mass violence, so-called “gun violence” and worse atrocities occur at a daily rate around the world. Simply putting on blinders and making up an argument that our nation is the most deadly place in the world as a pretext for eliminating your Second Amendment rights is quite simply a lie.

It is rather interesting our former President chose to make his latest comment in Brazil, a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world. It could be because Brazil’s new President is making good on campaign promises to ease his nations draconian gun control laws on firearm and ammunition purchases. During the latest decree signing, he said, “it is an individual right of the one who may want to have a firearm or seek the possession of a firearm… obviously respecting and fulfilling some requirements”.

More lies and more useless gun control laws that only limit the rights of law-abiding citizens are not the answer. But when you have no interest in solving the real problems that cause crime and violence, it’s the perfect scapegoat to get what you really want – total civilian disarmament and control.

Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.

Bob

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