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surprise_i'm_armed wrote:The above links state that the company is moving to Texas.

But I did not catch exactly where their Texas presence will be. Anyone know?

TIA / SIA

From the thread on the AK Forum, FB Radom USA will be Kingsland, just north west of Marble Falls, or about 60 or 70 miles north west of Austin. The local American rep is Ted Marshall, who has Marshall Arms LLC in Kingsland.

FML wrote:Does that mean Texans will be able to buy real AKs with no infringements from interstate commerce?

Nice try, but if you mean fully-made-in-Texas-so-no-Commerce-Clause-and-no-Federal-Law-Applies.... No, on two counts. Unfortunately.

One, it appears that initially the Texas FB Radom is going to be the importer of FB Radom rifles, which will be brought in from Poland and 922r'd just like other imported AKs. Sounds like maybe down the road some manufacturing locally might be done.

Two, under the current understanding/interpretation/corruption of the Commerce Clause, there is no way to make any product solely within a state, without some form of interstate commerce. Pretty much anything that is brought from out of state to manufacture the product would trigger federal firearms law applicablility through the CC. I think a company would have to mine the ore for the steel from Texas soil, smelt it and form it and treat it here for every part on the rifle, grow the trees for the wood for the stocks and/or pump the oil for the plastic for the stocks, refine it/shape it/ etc, pulp that wood for the price tag put on the rifle (and don't forget the glue) etc etc, otherwise the BATFE and the courts would deem the interstate commerce business to apply.

Sigh.