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On the Second Amendment...

There is no part of the United States Constitution more misrepresented than the Second Amendment. Those who seek to justify laws infringing on the right of the people to keep and bear arms have advanced every sort of red herring imaginable, from the contention that "well regulated" grants the government the power to limit the right to keep and bear arms (a completely specious argument given the context and purpose of the Bill of Rights), to the positioning of punctuation. For those not immediately familiar with the Amendment, it is provided below in its entirety: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Those who wish to use the Second Amendment as a cudgel against the right of the people to keep and bear arms predictably ignore the second half, or what is know as the "operative clause". So let's deconstruct the first half of the Amendment, the &qu
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What is an Unfinished Frame or Receiver?

The frame or receiver of a firearm is the part that contains the fire control group (FCG), which consists of (among other things) the trigger and the hammer. On a handgun, the frame contains the FCG, and on a rifle of shotgun, it is the receiver that contains the FCG. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) regards the frame or receiver as the critical part of a firearm. Thus, it is the frame or the receiver that is required to be serialized, cannot be purchased from a dealer with a Federal Firearms License (FFL) without passing a background check, and cannot be shipped through the mail. Parts of a firearm that are NOT a frame or receiver do not require serialization, can be bought and sold freely, and can be shipped via regular mail. Frames and receivers are often made from either polymers or aluminum.  A block of material is, therefore, capable of becoming a frame or receiver, but, being just a block of plastic or metal, is not considered to be a fire
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