Steve, I have a question.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Steve, I have a question.

Posted: 9/17/2002 10:02:28 AM EDT

Steve, a friend of a friend has a situation. This guy has a Berretta 9mm , model 3842 that his father brought back from WWII. Originally the gun fired in both full and semi auto. It had 2 triggers, one for full one for semi. It is an open bolt firing weapon. The question is, if he has removed the trigger and components to no longer allow it top fire full auto is that ok? I thought anything that had open bolt configuration was a no-no to begin with so disabling it to go FA shouldn't matter from what I thought. I am quite sure the gun is not on the NFA registry. What should this guy do. I am sorry if this is too much like the "inherited m-16" thread but with the gun not being able to function in FA and it being a WWII war relic I didnt know if there was other rules pertaining to it.

[beer]

Posted: 9/17/2002 1:33:48 PM EDT

[#1]

The rule is: once a machine gun, always a machine gun. Simply removing the full-auto parts isn't good enough. BATF requires the gun to be destroyed, usually by cutting the receiver into 3 parts. In addition, it is an open-bolt weapon, which is also banned (legal semi-autos were grandfathered IIRC).

Basically, he has a contraband machine gun.

Note that there are a couple of folks in Congress who are trying to get a law passed that will allow a "GI amnesty" so that all the war trophies can be added to the NFA registry. There are a lot of folks in the same position as your friend, and lots of families who found full-auto war trophies in the collections of deceased family members. Hopefully, this law will pass, and the gun could be registered. If the gun is turned into BATF, it will be destroyed.

-Troy

Posted: 9/18/2002 6:10:26 AM EDT

[#2]

Ok I thought that was the case on this. So basically he needs to hide the gun until the vetrans amnesty becomes a law, or destroy it. I will let him know.

[beer]

Posted: 9/18/2002 4:10:13 PM EDT

[#3]

Thanx Troy.

He's right.

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