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Posted: 2/17/2008 2:07:29 PM EDT
| An AK-47 from Vietnam. If there are no papers on it would someone be able to get it registered and how. Thanx |
| Bad news, that firearm could have been registered as a legal transferable NFA weapon prior to 1986, you cannot legally paper or posses it now. Your only legal option is to contact the ATF and they will take possesion of it (a tragedy beyond description), or you may be able to work on the one loophole in the NFA law that exists on non papered weapons, they have to be in the possesion of a legitimate museum curator who can then submit paperwork for it, I am unsure exactly how that whole process works, but I know it is a loophole that has been used successfully in the past, better to have it on display where it can be enjoyed by some one, than the ATF alternative. |
Some good advice given. If this is a true AK47 and it was not registered during the 1968 Amnesty then it is considered contraband by the BATF. Your one and only option to save a firearm in that class is to donate it to a museum that can register it on a form 10. This means that the weapon will never leave the museum but it would be better than seeing it chopped up and made into a toaster. If it is an SKS then there might be some papers on it. Paperwork was required in order to bring a "War Trophy" back to the United States. Pictured below is a genuine War Trophy SKS that was "collected" in Viet Nam.  These are the papers that it came with.   Be aware that just because an SKS lacks visible import stamps this doesn't mean that it is a Viet Nam war trophy. There are counterfeits out there. |
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