Now The Obama Administration Is After Gunsmiths?

Now The Obama Administration Is After Gunsmiths? - Forbes:
"My gunsmith has a lathe, a drill press, even a barrel reamer.
He uses them to repair guns.
To him, they are like a car mechanic’s welding equipment, drill and cutter tools.
He never thought drilling out a broken-off screw or grinding down a gun part to make a rifle’s action work smoother would define him as a “manufacturer.”
But now, according to the federal government, he is a manufacturer and is required to pay a $2,250 annual fee as mandated by the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) regulations.
This is what the Obama administration is now saying in a rule change.
...Requiring these people to pay $2,250 every year will drive many of them out of business or underground. Perhaps that is the reason for the rule change from the Obama administration.
If there is another reason, they aren’t making it public.
...According to the Obama administration’s new definition of what constitutes a manufacturer, everything from bicycle repair shops to carpenters would be deemed “manufacturers” and therefore be subject to regulations and fees that companies that make products and import and/or export goods are subject to.
But those other businesses are not being defined as manufacturers.
So, as gunsmiths are being singled out, this is obviously more gun-control politics from the Obama administration..."