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This surprises you?  This is Texas you're talking about.

But yeah, I heard about that seizure of airsoft guns.  Unbelievable how someone can fail to recognize a gun as being fake and, while not impossible, incredibly difficult to make into a functioning firearm.  No less difficult than just building one from scratch, especially if we're talking about machine guns specifically.  Hell, it's unbelievable that we're supposed to trust these people to make logical decisions as far as firearms laws are concerned, for fuck's sake!
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Apparently it was assumed that the lower receiver (the official "gun" component of an AR15) had close enough tolerances to qualify as an 80% finished receiver or better. Albeit with [i]really shit[/I] quality-materials.
-Also, being an imported "non-compliance" part.

It would also be missing pretty much all the components necessary to actually DO anything.

Which is like saying that a 2x4 is a gun-stock because you can gouge a place into it for a gun to fit.
-Therefore, blocks of wood are guns because I can turn THAT into a AR15 lower, and handgaurds.