Autokeycard owner arrested

Surprisingly the website is still up.
[link to www.autokeycards.com (secure)]
Be careful, if he was really arrested by the ATF they may try to go after anyone who buys any of these things. We don't know yet why he was arrested but there are rumors this was the ATF and they're going to claim the autokeycard is itself a machine gun part or proves intent to manufacture.

Basically, an autokeycard is a piece of metal with an outline on it of the shape you would need to cut out in order to create a lightning link. Once cut out and dropped into an AR, you turn the AR into a full auto rifle, the ATF now considers it as a machine gun. Even if you just cut out the lightning link the ATF will consider that a machine gun part and if you don't have a manufacturing license for that then you're going to be boned.

Autokeycard never described what the purpose of that metal key card really was nor how to manufacture it into a machine gun part or what to do with it if you did cut it out. All it was, was a piece of metal with a drawing on it. That was it. Here is a website that describes what a fully manufactured lightning link does.

[link to silencer-sales.com (secure)]

Autokeycard was meant as a novelty, a way of protesting against the ATF while staying within the bounds of the law. The joke was that this piece of metal was the size of a credit card that you could keep in your wallet to show your solidarity against the ATF without technically having a machine gun part in your possession. This seems to have pissed the ATF off and now they seem to be coming after the owner of the company.

The next logical step is for them to start coming after anyone who bought one, so if you bought one keep that in mind. definitely keep it in mind if you actually went through the process of cutting it out and turning it into a lightning link. We don't know yet for sure if he was arrested by the ATF or if it was an unrelated charge, but I'll try to keep this thread updated once I find out more. If this really was the ATF and if they really do try to charge him with selling machine gun parts, then that means it is illegal to sell this drawing on a piece of metal, even if the intent is just to create a novelty and not provide any instruction or direction on how to manufacture a machine gun part.

Last Edited by Astromut on 03/06/2021 10:15 AM