Lower engraving

[Salty Dawg]

I want to hear everybody's (especially the lawyers) opinions on 80% Arms' engraving service on 80% lowers. I'm planning on building my own AR, and I want to know if utilizing that service prior to July 2018 would make my build lawful or NOT unlawful? Or does the lower have to be completed first, before it can be engraved with a SN?

[BAJ475]

I want to hear everybody's (especially the lawyers) opinions on 80% Arms' engraving service on 80% lowers. I'm planning on building my own AR, and I want to know if utilizing that service prior to July 2018 would make my build lawful or NOT unlawful? Or does the lower have to be completed first, before it can be engraved with a SN?

An 80% lower is not a firearm, so anybody can engrave anything they want on it. Building an AR is a different story. It either has to be featureless or it must have a fixed magazine. Unless 80% Arms' engraving service has FFL it cannot legally engrave a lower that has been completed.

[Salty Dawg]

Thanks for the reply, but yes, they do have a FFL.

[Librarian]

Question moved; in general, after a bill has been chaptered, there is not a lot to say about the bill. 'How to obey' questions get a new thread.

[Hokanut]

A non FFL can do engraving on a finished "fire arm" as long as the owner is present.

[wchutt]

A non FFL can do engraving on a finished "fire arm" as long as the owner is present.

As long as they do not charge for it.