AW Registration Guide **3/18/2021 update: Registration may re-open soon**

[PG308]

Agree with the above. Seven out of the eight guns I have DOJ approvals for have been submitted with "United States of America" as country of origin, regardless of the state where the rifle or lower was made.

thank you!

[aBrowningfan]

If you want it to look good, you can use copper piping and polish it up, but that's too much trouble for just a few weeks until the DOJ approval is in hand.

I am waaay past a few weeks waiting for my approval letter. Fortunately, I don't have the OAL issue.

[aBrowningfan]

The problem is that, in most reports of DOJ visits, the agents "insisted" that, for their safety, they needed to retrieve the firearm themselves.

Again, minus a warrant you can tell them, "Sorry, either I get it myself, or you don't get to see it". But they might just come back an hour later, with a warrant and a grudge, which is why most people just complied and opened the safe for them.

What do you say to them when all that is in the safe is the lower receiver and they ask about the upper receiver?

[Dirk Tungsten]

For some reason every time the website crashed and booted me it created a new group of firearms which the website claimed had different owners despite being entered all under my login and having only my name.

Oh hey look, another guy getting someone else's guns and info in his session. If you have any info regarding this I think Chuck Michel's office might be interested.

[CandG]

What do you say to them when all that is in the safe is the lower receiver and they ask about the upper receiver?

"I forget where the upper ended up"

There's no law that says you have to keep records of what you did with your uppers.

[Junkie]

the MPX thing made me realize that the stock pad fell off one of my Sub2000s and I didn't verify that it was on before sending in pictures. I really hope it isn't a problem.

[beanz2]

the MPX thing made me realize that the stock pad fell off one of my Sub2000s and I didn't verify that it was on before sending in pictures. I really hope it isn't a problem.

[Baboosh]

Just like me with my CZ Scorpion. I left the fake suppressor in the pictures. Although I made remarks under Comments section, I now keep it off the rifle and took another picture just in case.

Why keep the fake suppressor off the rifle? I know I used them to make OAL on 2 rifles.

[beanz2]

Why keep the fake suppressor off the rifle? I know I used them to make OAL on 2 rifles.

Pure paranoia



This was only for taking pictures, but as a result of the effort, now it comes off with no effort. My stock was fixed in the extended position as a personal preference so making OAL was easy.

[paratroop]

So my first registrations were the beginning of May. I hadn't heard a peep so I was getting a little worried. Then I got 4 emails yesterday, an acceptance of submission for 3, and a problem for the fourth one. I resolved it in about 2 minutes, and now am hoping its all done!

My first 4 were store bought, and the rest were homemade. Took two months before they looked at my first submissions, hopefully the homebuilds won't have any hiccups!

[DCH]

Here’s one: has anyone had an AR Pistol DROS’d mistakenly as a Rifle due to the FFL dealer not processing it before Jan 1, 2015? (It had been in FFLs possession since mid-December 2014 as an SSE fully assembled with BB and arm brace)

The firearm has never been assembled with any type of stock- only an arm brace, and the barrel on the upper has never been longer than 14.5 with an A2 FH. Manufacturer confirmed it was sold to vendor as a stripped lower, that vendor later sold as a pistol lower.

Is this AR now a rifle since it was DROS’d that way, or can the DROS be corrected to a pistol via DOJ?

[Xerxes]

So...

After being rejected twice on my JP CTR-02 for not showing a caliber marking...they kept saying look again, sometimes it is on the barrel. Both times I put multi-barrel as this is a custom rifle manufatures lower that is offered in any calibers but there were no marking on the lower or the barrel.

I read up on the BATFE required markings-Caliber is one of the required markings though like all the other markings other than serial number they can be put anywhere on the firearm.

Realizing I had assembled parts that did not have this and wanting to register I changed the barrels to a shot out one that said 223.

When I re-registered stupid me forgot to change the multi-barrel drop down when I added the barrel photo.

I get rejected a third time, OK its on me for being stupid. But I read it over and over because they say to choose 223 MM. What the heck is "MM" so I am thinking is it Magnum something. Some misspelling of the acronym for Remington? I rechecked the photo I submitted, it says .223 but there are no "M's" anywhere around it. As I am scrolling through the choices up and down for the third time looking for 223 MM I realize there are lots of "mm" choices. Light bulb goes on over my head and there is this loud "BONG" heard throughout my house.

They want me to choose 223 millimeter even though its not a choice. I thought it bad when they started teaching the young'ens metric instead of imperial but it appears now that they teach neither and our young millennials do not know the difference between these two systems to measure the things that surround us. They think MM is something you put at the end of the Caliber choices, not that it means millimeter. So that's a 45 MM, a 32 MM, etc. as MM now means caliber.

I am waiting to see if I get rejected a fourth time since I did not pick 223 MM but 223 Remington. Also its kind of odd that 30Cal has so many different rounds like Big Ruskie, Little Ruske, 30-06, 308, etc all on the same choice bunched together but that they have 223 Remington separate from 5.56.

[shaocaholica]

That's really unfortunate. Doesn't matter when it was possessed by the FFL. The DROS date is all that matters. How did the FFL 'mistakenly' process it at a later date? They should have processed it the day the owner walked into the store to initiate DROS. If the owner doesn't show up until after Jan 1, 2015, that's not the FFLs fault.

[PG308]

So does anyone know the maximum number of times you can be rejected after the cut off date? july 1?

Or how many times they give you to make corrections basically?

[DCH]

That's really unfortunate. Doesn't matter when it was possessed by the FFL. The DROS date is all that matters. How did the FFL 'mistakenly' process it at a later date? They should have processed it the day the owner walked into the store to initiate DROS. If the owner doesn't show up until after Jan 1, 2015, that's not the FFLs fault.

FFL couldn't find shipped firearm in their warehouse until Jan 2015 and finally notified owner. Thats all the info I know..?