Rent/borrow ak build tools?

[WRXKid]

Just kidding. Never mind.

[kcstott]

Just don't need to totally invest in tools if I'm only building 2.

Incorrect.

BATFE letter states "your tooling, your equipment, your property"

so asking for help on a Public forum is a very bad idea.

[WRXKid]

Incorrect.

BATFE letter states "your tooling, your equipment, your property"

so asking for help on a Public forum is a very bad idea.

You're right. Just going to do it myself with my own tools.

[kcstott]

You're right. Just going to do it myself with my own tools.

Well you better get one it because you have until midnight Dec 31 to complete your build.

[WRXKid]

I can still build it after jan 1. Featureless. Plus 100% receivers are stripped lowes essentially so help, tools, etc aren't restricted like 80% builds.

[Drew Eckhardt]

Incorrect.

BATFE letter states "your tooling, your equipment, your property"

No. ATF ruling 2015-1 says

Held further, a business (including an association or society) may not avoid the manufacturing license, marking, and recordkeeping requirements of the GCA by allowing persons to perform manufacturing processes on blanks or incomplete firearms (including frames or receivers) using machinery, tools, or equipment under its dominion and control where that business controls access to, and use of, such machinery, tools, or equipment.

You're free to use some one else's tooling, equipment, and property as long as they're not a business. Without receiving payments or barter an individual is not a business.

If some one wants to loan you cutting tools, let you use their mill, or make guns in their garage that's OK.

Sharing costs goes too far (that could be construed as "an association" and the FAA does not allow it with pilots lacking commercial licenses), but gratis loans clearly aren't a business.

[kcstott]

And no one will facilitate a build uncompensated, Unless he has a friend then he would not be asking here.

I don't know of anyone that loans tools.