H.R. 7468 “Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act of 2020"

[DIYSwede]

A few month's back, Sacramento county in California was cracking down on home mechanics.
It was mainly aimed at people working on cars for payment, but several of those caught up in it were hobbyists.

Hi, Les - welcome onboard HMT, and thanks for your first post here!
Hope you'll find some interesting projects and useful methods & tips here, also perhaps share a few of your own?

-A link or two reporting on this home mechanics crackdown would be most helpful (and interesting to pursue further, at least to me),
as I've not yet found any info whatsoever on this, but then I might just've been unlucky in my searches so far?

Cheers and TIA

Johan

[lest21]

Johan,

Here's one link to an article on the Sacramento legislation.

https://jalopnik.com/sacramento-coun...own-1836085130

The problem is this is a county ordinance that includes all areas of the county including agricultural land. Just about every farm I know of has at least one tractor in the open being worked on. The big question is the vague "tools not normally found in a residence" statement. A county inspector can claim that the mig welder you have would put you in violation because it is a 'tool not normally found in a residence', how would a person dispute this.

And that is the problem with the Federal law, by including 3D printers, CNC machines, mills in their list opens a very big hole for the unwary to fall into.

Les T.

Hi, Les - welcome onboard HMT, and thanks for your first post here!
Hope you'll find some interesting projects and useful methods & tips here, also perhaps share a few of your own?

-A link or two reporting on this home mechanics crackdown would be most helpful (and interesting to pursue further, at least to me),
as I've not yet found any info whatsoever on this, but then I might just've been unlucky in my searches so far?

Cheers and TIA

Johan