You can also technically become, for the same price, a Class-3 FFL with a SOT.<p>It is about $500-$1000 USD per year. You need a secure place to hold your arms, keep extremely well maintained records of anything you buy, and if you stop paying your SOT any post-86 things you have manufactured must be destroyed.<p>If think you might also have to file a form 1 for everything you manufacture and that takes 1-5 months even stretching out to a year in some cases.<p>This also comes with a round of your prints being sent to the FBI, ATF, and I&#x27;m assuming a bunch of other three letter acronyms that you don&#x27;t ever want to meet.<p>But, if you can do that, get a drill press, and make friends at your local PD you can make some good money on the side by building post-86 dealer samples and handling transfers for your local PD.<p>Believe it or not, but by my current understanding factories cannot ship guns directly to police offices, they must still be handled through an FFL.