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In part 479, "receiver" is defined as a firearm part even when it means a person #331

Open brittag opened 8 years ago

brittag commented 8 years ago

Part 479 defines the term "receiver" as a part of a firearm, but it also uses the term "receiver" to mean a person who receives things. eRegulations provides the firearm definition whenever the text says "receiver", so sometimes the person is defined as the part:

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It would be great to go through search results for "receiver" in this part and make exceptions to this definition behavior when "receiver" means a person.

tadhg-ohiggins commented 8 years ago

Looks like it's only two: Receivers, trustees, assignees, executors, administrators, in https://atf-eregs.apps.cloud.gov/479-34/2014-18842#479-34-d and A receiver or referee in bankruptcy may in https://atf-eregs.apps.cloud.gov/479-43/2014-18842#479-43

It's probably safe at the moment to make those phrases exclusions, but I'm concerned about the fragility of this—both in terms of future regs changing the phrase (for example, to Receivers, assignees, trustees […]) and thus reintroducing the definition link, and in terms of a future version defining something like bankruptcy with our exclusion here for receiver preventing that from being linked.