Connecticut Teen Sentenced For Making AR-15s Illegally For Sale

By Tom Knighton

Federal law says you can build any firearm you want, so long as it’s not classifiable as a machine gun. If you want to set up a backyard operation and custom build yourself a firearm, you’re free to do that to your heart’s content. What you can’t do, though, is to make them for sale without the appropriate licensing and required record-keeping.

Yet a teen in Connecticut, a state known for his ardent love of gun control, was recently sentenced for doing just that.

A Connecticut man is facing 18 months behind bars after pleading guilty to one count of dealing firearms without a license.

In addition to prison time, 19-year-old Mohammadreza Kamali of Willimantic will be supervised for three years after his release for illegally manufacturing and selling firearms. Court documents show he built and sold four AR-15-style weapons, ordering the parts on the internet and selling the completed weapons to an undercover Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent.

Whoops.

Of course, some will look at this as evidence that the sale of incomplete AR-15 receivers needs to end. To them, I’d like to point out that all anyone needs to build their own receivers is a 3D …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms