A gunsmith as a professional is involved in the creation and upkeep of firearms, and as such is required to hold knowledge and expertise in a number of areas of craft.

Gunsmiths can work in a number of different employment settings, including companies involved in the initial manufacture of guns, large-scale organizations, such as military groups, which depend on the ability to use guns, and settings where gun sales and purchases can take place. Gunsmiths are generally expected to possess expertise in such areas as mechanics and metalworking. 

The profession of gunsmithing is generally held to be set apart in one way through the requirement that a practitioner possess these various forms of knowledge. In contrast to a gunsmith, the duties of gunsmiths may also be provided by the similar but less wide-ranging profession of an armorer.

Gunsmithing involves a degree of independence in the ability by gunsmiths to provide for the customization of firearms. An armorer, unlike a gunsmith, will be tasked to assembling firearms according to specifically laid-out guidelines and from parts provided for specific purposes. 

Gunsmithing in the context of the United States comes under the legal, supervisory heading of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. In this regard, U.S. gunsmiths must go through a process of registration and licensing with the ATF in order to practice gunsmithing legally, as will be granted through a Federal Firearms License, available, following inspection, for a $200.000 fee, as must be renewed after every three years. Local gunsmith statutes in effect may vary greatly.

Gunsmith jobs in the context of the firearm market and infrastructure of gun control laws of the United States can be secured in terms of a general state of a degree of license greater than many other settings for firearm regulation.

 

 

In this regard, gunsmithing tools to be used during the course of a career in this profession will draw from a number of different subjects, including the mechanical, woodworking, artisinal, and metalworking disciplines.

 

 

Gunsmith jobs can occur in a number of different work settings, so that in some cases gunsmith jobs might come as self-employed and self-directed career options, while in other cases gunsmith jobs might be found with large participants in the United States arms industry, such as prominent customers such as the United States military, or organizations such as arms companies. 

 

 

Gunsmith tools are secured from a wide spectrum of types of specific professions due to the general legal status of gunsmith jobs in the United States.

 

 

Due to the historic Second Amendment rights and patterns of usage of American gun owners, gunsmithing tools are obtained as to allow for gunsmithing jobs to carry out a wide degree of customization of firearms, in contrast to other nations in which the use of firearms is far more controlled and gunsmithing tools are not required or allowed to be as widely applicable.

 

 

To this end, gunsmith jobs will rely on the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm Bureau providing certification to the hopeful job practitioner in question, as will provide a Federal Firearms License.