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Message started by madsenshooter on Sep 29th, 2017 at 2:43am

Title: Antiques no longer antiques?
Post by madsenshooter on Sep 29th, 2017 at 2:43am
I want some of you to drop by this website and read BATF's Sept of last year modification to previous law.  Previously, pre-1898 made Krags were considered antique firearms.  As such, they could be bought and shipped interstate with no transfer required.  But look at the new definition:  "For the purposes of the National Firearms Act, the term “Antique Firearms” means any firearm not intended or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap or similar type of ignition system or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade." We were being all woeful that Krag ammo was no longer being made in the US!  Some of us would have been better off if Remington had not resumed production!  Exactly what does it mean?  It means that if I wish to sell one of my antiques to someone in another state, I'd have to ship it to a FFL, whereas I didn't have to before!  My antique is no longer an antique even though it was made prior to 1898!  It means that even if someone lists a pre-1898 Krag as an antique, and they're out of your state, you could get it trouble for buying it without the transfer.  I know, we used to try to get an idea of the serial # range needed to meet the old definition, but that doesn't matter with this relatively new one!  92s and 96s would no longer be antiques because they use fixed ammunition that is manufactured in the US!  Someone tell me I'm not reading this right!  Change in view was effective Sep 2016, when Obama's DOJ was interpreting things.   (You need to Login

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