Stag Arms, the Connecticut-based AR-15 manufacturer, has lost it’s federal firearms license
as a result of not properly keeping track of serialized lower receivers.

New Britain-based Stag Firearms LLC pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating federal firearms laws and as part of a plea agreement
company president and owner Mark Malkowski agreed to sell the company and have no further ownership or management role in
a gun manufacturer.

The company, with Malkowski serving as its representative, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Hartford to a single felony count
of possession of a machine gun not registered to the company.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is also revoking Stag’s federal license to manufacture firearms.

Malkowski is also scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Haven to a misdemeanor count of failure to
maintain firearms records.

The federal government began its investigation of Stag in July 2014, after a routine Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
inspection turned up a variety of recording keeping violations, missing firearms and unregistered firearms, the government said.

http://bearingarms.com/stag-feds-revoke-ar-15-manufacturers-license-sloppy-record-keeping/

 

An earlier report:

In specific, the suit claims that ATF inspectors on a routine inspection on July 15, 2014  discovered that Stag Arms had
approximately 3,000 un-serialized lower receivers at their 119 John Downey Drive location. Stag claims that they’d been
there for 7-30 days while the employee who serializes those parts was on vacation. Those parts were still un-serialized
when the inspectors returned a week later, on July, 22, 2014.

Derp.

Inspectors also found 136 un-serialized Stag Arms manufactured lowers at 515 John Downey Drive that had been moved
(0.3 miles) from the 119 John Downey Drive address, which they contend constitutes a transfer under the National Firearms
Act.

Derpity-derp.

Stag Arms apparently admitted keeping un-serialized lowers on hand in case a serialized lower was damaged. They
apparently did so, so that they could then simply destroy the damaged lowers (without having to do additional paperwork)
and put that serial number of the lower receiver on one of the un-serialized receivers.

http://bearingarms.com/stag-arms-raided-atf-stupidity-criminal-enterprise/

I wonder if this is another method at banning firearms or if this would have happened either way?

You would think that if the problem was pointed out to them, they would have fixed it within that week though.