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Post by twomoons on Feb 15, 2011 17:06:24 GMT -5
A local Sheriff's Office brought this in for some work. The gun is an original M4 USAAC survival rifle made in about 1943. The stock had been whacked off with bolt cutters and the replacment barrel was an original with a 14" tube and therefore a no no. I took the barrel and added a 2" smooth bore section on the ned to bring it to 16". The stock sections were fixed by welding on and dressing down extensions with the proper stops. The parts were then re parkerized to match the finish of the rest of the gun and the chamber reamed to set the proper headspace. The gun is now fully functional and other than the 2" extension on the barrel is just like it came in 1943. The rifle is chambered in 22 hornet and is a prety good shooter even with the short barrel. Attachments:
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Post by Jack on Feb 16, 2011 1:59:34 GMT -5
That is one you don't see every day!
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Post by deputydon on Feb 16, 2011 8:21:36 GMT -5
I missed the fact it was a Hornet when I looked at it...
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Post by twomoons on Feb 16, 2011 13:04:05 GMT -5
If it comes up for sale I'll let you know.
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Post by jmarriott on Feb 16, 2011 13:35:55 GMT -5
I love NFA items.
If it was from a local police office was it surrendered instead of regestered.
If it had paperwork then the 14 inch barrel was fine but would add tax stamp to hold and transfir plus you would need the class III FFL to have it untill the stamp paperwork was available. If it has been lenghtened now ithat is not a problem but it could have been if the MAN hapened to come and see you before it became 16 inches long. If I might state and opinion could you have threaded the barrel and added a flash hider and staked it with a weld like they do on lots of ar's. The if you wanted to pay the tax stamp you could grind down the weld and remove and add a thread cover.
I myself think the 200 dollar stamp would have been looked into before adding barrel lenght. Indiana is a little better state than most on NFA items, we can have short barreled rifles, surpressors and AOW items just no short barreled shotguns. Not all states are so forgiving when it comes to paying for the right to carry arms. 200 dollars was a lot of money in the 1930's when all the tommy's and sten's were out in the public. According to many my great uncle had a tommy and put in in the ground after the 1934 law passed/ I searched for a long time for that gun as a kid and never found it.
With the 200 dollar stamp not increasing since 1930's it is not to bad a deal in todays dollars. I want a surpressor and will get one sooner or later. I just have to figure out an NFA trust so the death transfir goes smooth and inexpensive. A 45 cal surpressed pistol and a 22 lr silencer are both on the top ten list.
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Post by twomoons on Feb 16, 2011 17:42:38 GMT -5
They wanted it just like it was only legal. They checked with BATF and got permission for the change and delivered it to me. I will guess that now that it is legal it will go to the Sheriff somehow. Since it was probably confiscated in the first place it couldn't be transfered it would have to be held as is or the barrel destroyed or this.
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Post by jmarriott on Feb 16, 2011 18:56:43 GMT -5
I guess it could have been re registered as a handgun if the stock had been cut off but i believe once a rifle always a rifle. It gets real weird to get all the NFA regulation correct as I have seen pistols made into SBR's with 200 dollar stamp/
I know of one street sweeper shotgun in a safe that did not get the paperwork filed and is now a no-no to have. It was purchased when legal and then the law changed and the paperwork time past and now it needs to be surendered/donated/or cut in half. I told him to part it out. I do not know if he still has it but after I told him it was a illlegal shotgun to own or sell he did put it in the back of a very big safe. I think it is a 25 year vacation in club fed.
I did give him the name of my lawyer and the local class III dealer to see what could be done.
I purchased a second frame for my contender and keep the rifle barrels and the pistol barrels with the correctly equiped frame. To put a 14 inch barrel on the rifle stock is a no no also. Extreme measure bt the second frame only cost me 125 after i sold the rem jet barrel to a collector.
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