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Posted: 2/7/2005 3:02:49 PM EDT
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I built an AK74 from a k-var kit(screw build on OOW receiver), wood stock, bayonet, few mags. How muh money would I be able to get for the gun if I decided to sell it? Im looking at $450 Can I get more? |
| All my builds I will have for life partly because the majority are on homemade receivers and I dont want the hassel of that but also because its not worth it with all the time and detail I put in I wouldnt get nearly any of it back. I have plenty of other toys I can sell if need be. |
But I think you have to be a certified gun show SEAL, or something, to sell guns at a gun show.
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You CAN sell a homebuild that you built for personal use. Even on a receiver you built yourself. The receiver needs to be marked in accordance with ATF regulations... your name, city and state, I believe, same as a SBR. You CANNOT build homebuilds with the intent to sell, or be in the business of manufacturing firearms, but you CAN still sell ones you don't want anymore. After all the gun manufacturer lawsuits though, I'd be hesitant to sell them anyways. Ruger and the others have much deeper pockets than I do, and they're not having fun. |
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Let me preface this by stating that I've done a couple screw builds and I like them fine. Had lots of fun figuring it out. I believe that it's the purest expression of home gunsmithing. That said, IMHO, to an educated buyer, a screw-build will never be as valuable as a properly riveted rifle. Furthermore, if you were to sell the parts separately, I think that tapping the trunions has lowered the value of the kit. Sure, you could probably go back and rivet those trunions, but they're still buggered-up parts. Keep it, enjoy it, put it away for a couple years if you're tired of it, but I really doubt you can get $450. |
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