Gunsmithers. Are you able to help thee?!?

[wrat]

I see that you guys enjoy working with guns. I heard that In the United States, gunsmiths could earn more than the national median wage, depending on where they work. A New York gunsmith, for example, can earn $85,000.

Be advised, like all such job reports, what Gunsmith CAN make and what a Gunsmith DOES make are two different things. Lots of factors in that equation.
In fact, the only way i've found to be successful at any of the trades is to have other people doing it in your shop, too. That is, a Gunsmith may make modest wages, but the guy that owns the shop that can keep 3 or 4 'smiths busy makes the money. This is not new.
Maybe a Gunsmith can nowadays pull down that kind of earnings. But after shop space, insurance, lights, taxes, and an endless list of other expenses, I'd tip my hat to the man that could *clear* that kind of take-home.

 

[wrat]

Without having the proper paperwork it is illegal for you to machine any gun parts for someone else. If you make the parts for you and by you it’s okay.

Good advice and true.
Have fun by yourself. Have paper for anyone else.

Now if you make a gun and decide to sell down the road you can do so but don’t make it a habit.

You were doing so well!
Do not do this. Not at all. Once you pass "80%" (a nebulous distinction) you've built a gun and CANNOT transfer that gun without some paperwork. That includes giving it to family members. That's a transfer. And in some states (check yours) you cannot build it except as a business entity and must transfer it to YOURSELF if you care to own it - which is also illegal.
So you go buy an "80% receiver" and grind out your own AR. No problem. All is well. You're good.
You give/sell/award/or even pass-on that gun and this becomes an illegal transfer of an unserialized weapon. However, if once you've finished your AR, you complete a Form 1 and give it a manufacturer name and serial (which may also require a Form 4 - it varies within the agency to which Special Agent you speak with), then you can sell or give it to anyone that qualifies for ownership and they can do likewise with no limits as it's now just a gun.
If you 'make it a habit' you MIGHT end up needing to register yourself as a Manufacturer (more $$$ and more paper). Again, this is remarkably inconsistent within the bureaucracy and subject to rather capricious changes as we've recently witnessed with triggers and drawings.

 

[woodchucker]

@mmcmdl m31 is a semi auto rifle.

I am seeing it's a submachine gun , looks to be fully automatic. Someone in Mississippi modified his back to fully auto... pretty nice... old tech.

Tikka Suomi submachine gun M31

The Suomi submachine gun was designed by Aimo Lahti in 1924. The gun was manufactured by Konepistooli Osakeyhtiö, which was established by Lahti, lieutenant Y. Koskinen, captain V. Korpela and lieutenant L. Boyer-Spoof, and which sold the manufacturing rights to the Tikkakoski gun factory in the early 1930s.

About 81,000 units of the weapon were manufactured in the Tikkakoski gun factory between the years 1931 and 1945. In addition to that, licenced manufacturing took place in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland for the army of the respective country.

here's a good video:

 

[pontiac428]

I get a bang out of gunsmithing, and keep building more and more to support doing it, but I only do it for myself. I don't want a lawyer and a liability rider policy just for fitting a barrel. @Cadillac was exactly correct, you can make a receiver for yourself on occasion. If you want it to be legal for sale, an ATF form and some engraving will make it so, and it is easy, but that's for an occasional sale of a home made firearm. What you want to do is commercial, i.e. making a receiver for someone else. That takes a manufacturer's FFL (next to C&R, it's the easy FFL to obtain), but at that point you will need steady business to pay for your new commercial enterprise. That means opening your shop doors to all the yayhoos with ideas in their heads about what they'll be getting. To me, it sounds messy. I'm just a slow manual machinist, I have no overhead for customer support. The whole idea just snowballs when I think of it.

 

[Cadillac]

Good advice and true.
Have fun by yourself. Have paper for anyone else.


You were doing so well!
Do not do this. Not at all. Once you pass "80%" (a nebulous distinction) you've built a gun and CANNOT transfer that gun without some paperwork. That includes giving it to family members. That's a transfer. And in some states (check yours) you cannot build it except as a business entity and must transfer it to YOURSELF if you care to own it - which is also illegal.
So you go buy an "80% receiver" and grind out your own AR. No problem. All is well. You're good.
You give/sell/award/or even pass-on that gun and this becomes an illegal transfer of an unserialized weapon. However, if once you've finished your AR, you complete a Form 1 and give it a manufacturer name and serial (which may also require a Form 4 - it varies within the agency to which Special Agent you speak with), then you can sell or give it to anyone that qualifies for ownership and they can do likewise with no limits as it's now just a gun.
If you 'make it a habit' you MIGHT end up needing to register yourself as a Manufacturer (more $$$ and more paper). Again, this is remarkably inconsistent within the bureaucracy and subject to rather capricious changes as we've recently witnessed with triggers and drawings.

I was wrong not to explain yes you are 100% correct. Use caution always!