Okay, because I like you, I went back and read the portion of his rant that you posted. Also, I was inviting him to suck start his pistol, not you. Just wanted to be clear on that.

When you purchase an NFA item through a trust there is a background check. It happens during the 6 month process, and then when it comes time to pick up your stamp and NFA item, a 4473 is completed for an "other" item, NICS data is pulled, and you either get a "proceed", or do not. He is misinformed.

As to the creation of an SBR, or SBS, all one really needs is a hacksaw, a vice, and a few minutes and you have a shortbarreled shotgun. To make an SBR, all you need to do is to take an AR-15 pistol upper, toss it on a rifle lower, and voilla', you have an SBR. Give me the parts and I can build a fully functioning semi auto AR-15 SBR in about an hour. Illegal as all get out, but easily done.

I could make just about any rifle into an effective SBR with a hack saw, as long as I left the gas system intact. Doing this will get you 10 years in federal prison, and up to a $250,000 fine.

The instances of legally obtained NFA items being used in a crime are few and far between. One suppressor incident, and one SBR incident, that we came up with in the past 20 years in our research before we proposed legislation covering suppressors and SBR's. You know why? Because good guys will go through the process. Bad guys, well, they are called criminals for a reason.

This is a mentally unstable criminal. I hope they shoot to wound, a lot.