I recently visited a friend who has a Valmet m76 registered to him.  He was complaining about the DOJ wanting a picture of the serial number on the receiver, and showed me the letter they sent.  I glanced through and noticed that he registered the weapon in Dec. 1990.  I couldn't think of any reason that he would have registered it then, since Roberti-Roos was 1989 and the Federal ban was 1994.  Is there an amnesty period I'm not thinking of?  Just curious.

IIRC there was a 2nd registration period that cut off in March of 1992. Usually these things run for a year so if RR was signed in 1989 your friend's gun would be have been regged within the first round.

I never saw the M76 on the original ban list.

Someone please throw-out the 1989 list.

It's not on the roberti-roo's list. If he registered it under RR he did so in error.