Comment on FR Doc # 2026-08915

Requiring approval for an SBR offers no provable or constitutionally-defendable benefit to society and produces an entrapment situation for otherwise law abiding and peaceful citizens who should not be expected to afford yet another cost to exercise a constitutional right (the cost of engraving which can be up to $70 per unit) or takes advantage of a discount sale to purchase items for the conversion before approval (by way of constructive intent). For existing/already-serialized firearms, an engraving results in no necessary identifying/signifying information that an approved Form 4 and existing serial number doesn't already cover both in the formal legal sense - see all other forms of legal documentation that sufficiently signifies material changes to a product or property - and via common sense. Already one is, in effect, required to keep the Form 4 approval available should it be called upon. When an existing manufactured and serialized rifle is converted to an SBR, for example, it is not actually being "manufactured". That which is classified as the firearm has already been manufactured. When a car or boat is modified with an improved engine or different suspension, one does not have to add another VIN number to the vehicle or engrave it with who did the work (because documentation logs these changes sufficiently). Engraving certain firearms could severely devalue them, as well, which is unfair when an approval process and approval document is not only provided but required to be kept with the firearm (or at least made available to an ATF agent, who is the only law enforcement allowed to enforce the current rule).