I am a disabled veteran and I recently was awarded my full disability from the VA. What I would like to do now is spend the next several years in Texas building different rifles, pistols, and suppressors I have been designing. I also would like to be able to buy military and automatic weapons both to compare to my creations (would be seen as collecting) and to rebuild to test design ideas. I have read up on getting a FFL and the best I can tell I would need a type 07 since I would want to make weapons, and a Class 2 tax stamp to make suppressors and have the full auto weapons. I don't plan on selling any weapons, or very few while I'm working on the prototypes. It’s going to be a slow process too, my injury keeps me in bed for weeks at a time and I would have to work in a workshop in my house or on my property. I know that these things are all the opposite of what they want when they issue a FFL, but this is something I truly want to do.
I'd like to know:
Is this the right FFL for what I want to do?
Is there any way to impress upon the ATF I'm researching a design as an investment or a business?
What is it going to cost me a year to have 07FFL with a Class 2 Stamp (estimates)?
Then please give me any ideas you have about solving some of the problems I'm going to have trying to get this done.
I'd like to know:
Is this the right FFL for what I want to do?
Is there any way to impress upon the ATF I'm researching a design as an investment or a business?
What is it going to cost me a year to have 07FFL with a Class 2 Stamp (estimates)?
Then please give me any ideas you have about solving some of the problems I'm going to have trying to get this done.
