Actually, 'they' do. Lots of fees and permits and paperwork to even push an ice-cream cart.
As said. Cut their budgets. There ain't near enough tar, feathers, or lamposts in the world to do it any other way.
Bill
The point was, the food cart vendor (I typed court by mistake) does NOT have to have another licensed premises other than his food cart, IE his home where he might store his hot dog cart is not required to be zoned for retail sales.
As for the 01 for "gunsmith" only, maybe they were willing to be a bit more flexible on the zoning req if it was a home based SERVICE business not a home based retail sales business ?? You can still get an 07 because home based mfg is treated different zoning wise a lot of places than home based retail sales. Most of the kitchen table gun dealers Clinton got rid of were not zoning compliant doing that, but would not be for selling Amway either, or Avon ;-).
And Claude, they have been altering and redefing what they define as "mfg" now. The heart of the matter really seems to be whether the work you do is at the request of a specific customer. If you decide you are doing a lot of the same thing over and over, and decide to streamline things it can slip over into mfg from gunsmithing.
Example a guy I know has ran a thriving gunsmithing and retail sales shop for over 40 years, he over the years has streamlined things he did a lot. One example is 10-22 barrels threaded into the reciever, he was doing that many years ago, he did quite a few, so he would buy say a dozen Wilson blanks, and turn, thread, polish and blue them...ready to go. A real time saver. BUT, that is mfg(as far as ITAR goes), not gunsmithing.
He was also into doing the Ruger single sixes over to 22 K chuck, same deal, streamline and make some parts ahead and have them on hand, again mfg not gunsmithing to order, qualifies as mfg under ITAR.
A company produces barrels for firearms and sells the barrels to another company that assembles and sells complete firearms.
Because barrels are not firearms, the company that manufactures the barrels is not a manufacturer of firearms. The company that assembles and sells the firearms should be licensed as a manufacturer of firearms.
Again to grasp ITAR fully you need to look at the fact that it is not about the license you have, it is about what you DO.
A gunsmith regularly buys military type firearms, Mausers etc., and sporterizes� them for resale.
The gunsmith is in the business of manufacturing firearms and should be licensed as a manufacturer.
Many gunsmiths develop little accessories that they include in their offerings and never give it a thought that they are in fact engaged in mfg of items on the munitions list, and must then pay ITAR (whether they have an 01, an 07, or even no ffl at all). The devil is in the details, for example if you dream up a part to make a Pratt and Whitney rifling machine work better and you market it, BINGO you need to register for ITAR.
Many many small mfg start up and engage in business every day without ever knowing they are non compliant.
Bill