Along with a line of synthetic and wood stocks, fully profiled but with inletting engineered to be epoxy bedded. Tolerances could be left great enough that all stock work at the factory could be finished by machine only, but no particular skill at woodworking would be necessary by the buyer, since the epoxy bedding would take care of that.

Heck, the stock product line could include wood stocks that are 100% finished on the outside, fully shaped but unfinished or left only rough-shaped, not to mention a wide array of synthetic stocks.

Would encourage a healthy gunsmithing industry also.

I'm liking this idea.

Of course, it already exists in the form of Brownells, etc, but at this juncture assembling a gun costs more than a similar gun would cost new due to the basic requisite need for significant gunsmithing skills to assemble. The Factory Kit Gun would bedesigned to eliminate the entire NEED for skilled gunsmithing and economies of scale could be used to produce a good pricepoint.

C'mon guys, somebody should listen up in light of the fact that gunmakers keep having to try to sell guns to the same people who already own them. This might give a guy a personal tough without the cost and trouble of a true custom gun and give him something he doesn't already have.