When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Polymer80 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer80

    The first project undertaken by the company was an injection molded AR-15 rifle lower receiver. The company then moved to AR-10 style rifle lower receivers, and finally pistol receivers. [14] The name of the company refers to the injection molding process combined with the common designation of unfinished receivers as "80% receivers". [14]

  3. Receiver (firearms) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_(firearms)

    A disassembled Mauser action showing a partially disassembled receiver and bolt. In firearms terminology and law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing pin and extractor, and has threaded interfaces for externally attaching ("receiving ...

  4. Roberti–Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberti–Roos_Assault...

    Most AR-15 and many AK manufacturers now make lower receivers which qualify as "Off-List" Lower (OLL) receivers which are legal to possess and use in the state of California. Before trying to acquire one, ensure that it's not marked with any make/model combination appearing on the Roberti-Roos list (30510 PC) or its regulatory echo in 11 CCR ...

  5. Bondi v. VanDerStok - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_v._VanDerStok

    Garland v. VanDerStok (Docket No. 23-852) is a pending United States Supreme Court case regarding the 2021 Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) regulatory revisions of the Gun Control Act of 1986's definitions of firearm, firearm frame, and receiver. [1]

  6. Homemade firearm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homemade_firearm

    Under U.S. federal law, the creation of a firearm for non-commercial purposes (i.e., personal use) has, almost without exception, been unlicensed and legal.Since the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968, however, anyone intending to manufacture firearms for sale or distribution is required to obtain a Federal Firearms License, and each firearm made is required to bear a unique serial number.

  7. Gun law in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States

    Gun show, in the U.S.. Most federal gun laws are found in the following acts: [3] [4] National Firearms Act (NFA) (1934): Taxes the manufacture and transfer of, and mandates the registration of Title II weapons such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, heavy weapons, explosive ordnance, suppressors, and disguised or improvised firearms.

  8. Smith & Wesson - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_&_Wesson

    Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and later renamed as "Volcanic Repeating Arms", was sold to Oliver Winchester and ...

  9. Gun show loophole - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_show_loophole

    They argue that current laws provide rules for commercial gun sellers more broadly, and intentionally do not regulate non-commercial, intrastate transfers of legal firearms between private citizens, regardless of whether the transactions occur at gun shows or somewhere else.