From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Sun Dec 05 2004 - 13:15:06 PST
Correction....the $200 must be submitted with the Form 4 to transfer the
weapon...no cash with transfer......it gets shot back at ya!
Jon
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From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: [MV] NFA was: .50 = DD?
> At 11:16 AM -0600 12/5/04, Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
> >Mabe I don't understand. I thought I go get my
> >FFL 'license/tax' for that beast, and contract
> >with a machine gun dealer to import it and
> >deliver it to me here in goode ol' Texas.
> >
> >Their page says this:
> >
> >A.T.F. approved Form 6 with all its associated
> >documentation: authorization to deal in NFA
> >transferable firearms already within the U.S. is
> >not the same as being cleared to import "post
> >'86" automatic weapons.
> >
> >What does this really mean? Can these not be imported ?
>
> Ok, for regular people, to get a Machine Gun (NFA
> item) you have to find a weapon that is Pre-86
> ban transferable. That means that it was in
> civilian hands before the 86 closure of the NFA
> (national firearms act) Registry. If you find
> one, can afford the massively inflated price
> (supply and demand you know) you then file a form
> with the BATF. They mull it over for 2 months (or
> so) and then they get back to you with a request
> for your tax payment. You send them the $200
> payment and then they send you a bit of paper
> that has your tax stamp and the details about the
> gun on the form. The gun is now yours and you can
> go pick it up from the dealer you bought it from
> 4 months or so before.
>
> If you want to import a post 86 weapon, you need
> a letter of request or some such from the
> military. Good luck doing this because if you're
> not a contractor making weapons or even
> prototypes for the military, the BATF is going to
> tell you no-way-no-how. Becuase, that little gem
> of a law in 86 made it impossible (barring an
> amnesty period) to add any weapons to the NFA
> registry.
>
> What makes a weapon a Pre-86 ban weapon is that
> it was in civilian hands and in the registry
> before the closure of the registry.
>
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> --
> Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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