Registering Question

[chevy_boy]

I have become quite good at some safety and performance mods for the SKS type rifle. I was thinking of offering my services publicly.

Now, I do know if I were to work on other people firearms I would have to register as a gunsmith and jump through the hoops that exist in the process. Unfortunately my municipal bylaws prevent me from having this type of business from my home.

If I were to sell "kits" that contain upgraded/improved parts. I am no longer working on customer firearms. Would I be OK to operate with out registering as a gunsmith?

 

[calvados.boulard]

Hmm...Interesting. I may have to dig out the SKS...

(Sorry I can't be of any real help with regards to your question.)

Thanks,
Cal.

 

[stang]

Hmmmmmmmmm Chevy-boy working on SKSs.
Do GMs and SKSs come out of the same factory in China?

 

[chevy_boy]

Hmmmmmmmmm Chevy-boy working on SKSs.
Do GMs and SKSs come out of the same factory in China?

Mexico I think... but probably labeld as china to appear as better quality.

 

[sunray]

Read the sticky. There's no such thing as a 'registered gunsmith" nor any kind of minimum required training. Anybody can call themselves a gunsmith.
You will require a firearms business licence and whatever Provincial/municipal business permits are required in B.C./your village. Plus liability in$urance.
Kind of suspect that working exclusively on the SKS would severely limit your clientele. There ain't that much demand for anybody to do anything to a stop gap carbine that was designed to be issue to illiterate conscripts.

 

[chevy_boy]

To be clear... I need to become licensed as a gunsmith, to sell parts.... To be clear... I will at no point be working on any ones firearms at any point. I will also not be selling anything that will be considered a firearm.

 

[MTLGUN]

Can't begin to see why you'd need any kind of license to sell or make parts with the exception of receivers. HOWEVER ! if you live in a municipality that for some reason already has a rule or reg on the books that say's you can't be a gunsmith, you might want to check and be sure that making more than 4 toast at a time doesn't make you a baker and thus open you up to penalty.

Last couple years the feds and provinces have been bad, but they scratch the surface when it comes to activist city councils trying to grab headlines and fix the universe.

Spring kits, oversize safeties and mag releases, bolt buffers, I'd just do it, but you know your town better, so a bit of research into home based businesses might be in order.