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In 2021, a leading manufacturer of these products moved its plastic injection molding facility to Maryville, Tennessee. Ashley Hlebinsky, who curates a museum about these products, testified against their proposed redefinition for the DC Project. Cody Wilson sells CNC mills to make these products from “80 percent lowers.” (10[1])The comparison microscopy system IBIS classifies models of these products, which are identified from microstamping and toolmarks. (10[1])Although makers of these products are protected by the 2005 PLCAA, seven of them were sued in 2021 (10[1])by Mexico. (10[1])Businesses (10[1])like LSC resell “parts kits” (10[1])from these (10[1])products (10[1])after nominal destruction (10[1])of their serial (10[1])numbers, (10[2])which are (10[1])absent from privately (10[2])assembled, untraceable (10[1])ones (10[2])nicknamed (10[1])“ghosts.” (10[3])For 10 points, private sales of what objects are exempt from background checks enforced by the (10[1])ATF? ■END■

ANSWER: guns [or firearms; accept pistols, rifles, handguns, AR-15s, or other specific types of firearm; accept gun shows or ghost guns or 3-D printed guns; accept Cody Firearms Museum; prompt on conventional weapons or arms or self-defense or equivalents] (Clues include Smith & Wesson, the Integrated Ballistics Identification System, and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.)
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