Help w/bushmaster info.

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DCM

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My uncle just passed and left his collection of rifles to me. There is a bushmaster lower, preban serial #, looks like never used. I know he had just bought a flat top upper for it and had the original upper also, but this one seems to be dismantled as he was doing work on it.
Here is the specs of a complete bushmaster rifle:
lower new condition, tele-stock, upper is a A3M4, i believe 16" w/bayonet nut and flashsuppressor; looks like the one bushmaster has on their site. It doesn't look like it was fired either. Seems to fit together very tight.
Please let me know how much it could be worth and what is the best avenue to use to sell it?
Thanks in forward for your help.
 
Hi there, DCM. Welcome to TFL.

Tell ya what I'm gonna do.

I'll ship your thread over to "The Art of the Rifle" where the rifle experts hand out.

You can find it there under the same title, okay?
 
First...

Call Bushamster at 800-883-6229 and confirm that the lower left the factory as a complete rifle prior to the September 13, 1994 ban. They will follow-up with a letter if you ask for it.

A factory verified preban Bushmaster carbine in the condition described should be worth in the $1200 - $1600 range.
A post on the For Sale boards at http://www.ar15.com should generate a lot of interest from potential buyers.

Good luck.

Bud
 
Nah, sell it over here on TFLs rifle fer sale section

but

WHY SELL IT?????????????

that one is a keeper fer sure

Bushmaster did not sell a ton of pre 1994 rifles

Bushmaster 800-998-SWAT
Below L051000 - Assembled Pre-Ban Rifles and some pre-94 lowers.
L051001-L063000 - Mixed Pre-Ban Assembled Rifles and Pre-Sept 94 Lowers (Call to verify)
L063001 and Up - Post-Ban
 
Thanks...

Pleas explain about checking on the rifle thing. If it left Bushmaster a rifle it is good and not it is bad???
 
It has to do with the AW ban of 94. If it was just a receiver, and not assembled into a complete rifle after a certain day (sometime in september, 1994), it can't have the evil 'assault rifle' features added to it - it would be considered a 'post ban' rifle. If it was a complete rifle when it left the factory, or your uncle built it into a complete rifle before that date, it's considered a pre-ban.

Pre-bans are more valuable because they can have the evil (i.e. useful and cool-looking) features on them that post-bans can't.
 
I dont know much about the pre-ban, post-ban stuff. But it is pre-ban as you describe and you can build it into a fully functional rifle, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU SELL IT. Even if your not a gun person, that is definatly worth keeping.
 
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