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Posted: 9/12/2006 8:26:59 AM EDT
| Problem solved. |
| The old vet really needed the money, and i got to meet him in person. When i told him what the gun would be worth if it was registered and transferable, he almost shit. He does not want it back, so it looks like it will be heading to the PD. Oh well, at least the vet got some much needed money. |
| Tell your friend to contact a muesum in your area. most of them can take non regestered MG's as donations and the value can be written off in your taxes. That's where my STG went. :) If he contacts the ATF branch in his area and tells them what is going on he should be in the clear. My branch here was very helpful...even went as far as to give me the names of places to donate it to. |
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I am a retired police officer and currently work as a legal research paralegal with a state governmental agency. Between my research assignments, for fun and personal interest, I have been looking at cases involving National Firearms Act (NFA) weapons, from 1938 to the present. Referring to these cases, all I can say is your friend has done a very idiotic act by purchasing the unregistered, unlicensed, and untaxed NFA firearm. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATFE) is very aggressive in investigating and arresting violators of the NFA. By past case law, if your friend is arrested, he will be convicted and sentenced to prison. Your friend has knowingly and willingly committed a violation of the NFA. Unfortunately, as I understand it, there is no provision with the AFTE for a private person to register onto the “National Firearms Act National Registry” any firearm not already on this list before the manufacturing ban of 1986. There are no provisions for amnesty. There are several cases were people came forward to surrender NFA type “War Souvenir Machineguns” to the AFTE; and were arrested with the firearms forfeited as their reward. Your friend, in my legal opinion, is a fool, and should divest himself of this weapon as soon as possible and as discreetly as possible. I am amused, that in this day and age, the knowledge out there, there are still people out there doing very silly things with NFA type firearms. If you wish, I can cite some of these cases for you within the next few days. |
with all due respect, i entirely disagree with this statement and your viewpoint. while i was still living in CT, you can't imagine the absurdity i heard about the owning of pistols and rifles, let alone "assault weapons", let alone machine guns. some of this information was even given to me by various gun dealers and [even] the state police weapons and licensing dicision. shit, even the ATF itself changes its' tune with the wind. combined with the fact that there are so many laws on both state and federal levels, a ban that has only existed for 20 years, and an unwillingness of our highest courts to address the issue, i don't find it all that hard to believe that an older gent (and WWII vet) could have a bring-back MG, and sell it off when money was tight to someone who thought it was "neat". |
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