Ok, Is this procedure legal ? .. on an individual sale …
The owner (who didn’t know what he was doing)had tried to smooth / lighten the trigger on an SKS. The prospective buyer had never seen the rifle fired but hearsay was that it would "go auto".
The prospective buyer lays the money on the kitchen table to show the owner that he is serious about the sale but stipulates that first he needs to disassemble and inspect the rifle. The P.B. pulls from his pocket a few tools, including a homemade brace for the trigger housing, and disassembles the rifle. The "modified" parts are pushed across the table to the owner.
The money is then handed to the owner while saying "I’ll pay your asking price for the rifle but I don’t want those damaged parts. I recommend destroying them.". The receipt is made out for SKS # xxxxx with missing trigger group parts. The buyer leaves with rifle minus the damaged parts while the seller is breaking up the parts in a vise. Later the buyer orders parts and repairs rifle.
The owner (who didn’t know what he was doing)had tried to smooth / lighten the trigger on an SKS. The prospective buyer had never seen the rifle fired but hearsay was that it would "go auto".
The prospective buyer lays the money on the kitchen table to show the owner that he is serious about the sale but stipulates that first he needs to disassemble and inspect the rifle. The P.B. pulls from his pocket a few tools, including a homemade brace for the trigger housing, and disassembles the rifle. The "modified" parts are pushed across the table to the owner.
The money is then handed to the owner while saying "I’ll pay your asking price for the rifle but I don’t want those damaged parts. I recommend destroying them.". The receipt is made out for SKS # xxxxx with missing trigger group parts. The buyer leaves with rifle minus the damaged parts while the seller is breaking up the parts in a vise. Later the buyer orders parts and repairs rifle.