"Everyone knows better than to send a loaded gun through the mail," some will say. REALLY? Because we NEVER hear about accidents with LOADED WEAPONS, now do we?

Stuff like silencers and turning rifles into semi-automatic weapons?

Personally, I am not into guns. I would suspect not, but I am no expert on this. I just think that allowing guns to be sent through the mail helps folks who want to get guns without going through a background check, and probably will result in more people getting shot. That what guns are for, after all; Kurt Vonnegut wrote that a gun was a machine for putting holes in people.

Current law says a gun cannot be shipped through the mail, but a "gun part" can be.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - which sounds like the name of a Wyoming convenience store - says a "gun" is the part of the gun with the serial number on it.

If you have an AR-15 or other Modern Sporting Rifle/"black gun"/assault rifle, the serialized component is the lower receiver casting.

An automatic pistol's "gun" is the frame, which is the part that features the handgrip.

A popular hobby in the shooting sports is to buy an AR-15 lower receiver casting from a gun store, then assemble the weapon from parts you chose individually.

However! "Stuff like silencers" are National Firearms Act items, "Class III weapons" or "Title II weapons." They fall into the same legal framework as machine guns, except that there's a law that set an end date for manufacture of machine guns transferrable to civilians and new suppressors are legally made every day. Parts to turn rifles into full-auto weapons are themselves considered machine guns, and the only way you can legally possess or transfer one is if it was installed into a rifle before the May 1986 cut-off date.

Sounds suppressors are controlled items and generally cannot be mailed except to/from a licensed dealer/manufacturer or the registered owner (for repair). The prcess of selling one to someone else requires a lot of paperwork and time.

The part of the gun with a serial number is legally "the gun." All the rest of the parts are just parts and legal to buy, sell, mail.

You can't easily convert a manual action rifle into a semi-automatic, though semi-automatics are easy and cheapish ot get. Did mean a semi-automatic into an automatic? Parts that do that are illegal, or subject to heavy regulation. BUT.... there is an easily available part for AR-15's that turn them in to autpomatic weapons in all but name. They TECHNICALLY do not meet the definition of a machine gun... but they are a machine gun for all practical purposes.

(As most things are with trump) that a man who has allegedly survived a couple of assassination attempts with the use of guns continues to do all he can to promote gun violence.

Making America safe again one fucking stupid decision after another

Just be careful buying your firearms from Temu.

Americans, that’s why.
Everything they do screams that out loud and clear! EVERYTHING
More money for the.1%
More broke, desperate and dead citizens, that to them are just useless eaters.
This excuse for a government is nothing more than pure evil wrapped in money.

Trump's idea of making America Great sucks.

a fashioned shoot 'em up.

This is for Gluck and Sig.

Not a smart move, he's such an idiot!!! this may backfire on him, no pun intended.