Sturmgewehr 44 Turned in at Police Buyback

Not sure what you are referring to here.
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Typo. 1986. :o

Essentially we were limited to "What is here is here and what is not can never be here.

I believe the cops are holding the weapon for the woman until arrangements can be made for its sale/donation. It is beyond belief they would hand it back and send her on her way.

The real problem she will have with a federal agency will be the IRS. If she keeps it they could assign it a value and demand the taxes. She could be forced into giving it away to a museum sort of like this case:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/...s-away-art-work-featuring-illegal-bald-eagle/
 
She could be forced into giving it away to a museum sort of like this case:
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The real problem is that she most likely will not be able to give it away to a Museum. It would be more like trying to give crack cocaine to a museum - there is simply no legal way for the museum to take legal possession of such a thing (crack or an unregistered machine gun). I believe that, at least the receiver, will have to be destroyed. I don't know about the parts.

FYI, I don't think the Sturmgewehr 44 is intrinsically all that valuable. Like someone pointed out, there are a good number of them around the world. Registered transferable Sturmgewehr 44's are extremely rare and valuable. What you are paying the big bucks for is the permission to legally own one in the US.
 
It saddens me to know end when I see little old ladies having to resort to gun buy backs in order to sell off thier late husband's war trophies.

Or at a gun show trying to conduct a private sale and not get ripped off.

Last gun show I went to, there was an eldery lady with an M-1 carbine, no bayonet lug, in great shape, with matching numbers, asking $300 dollars for it.
 
It saddens me to know end when I see little old ladies having to resort to gun buy backs in order to sell off thier late husband's war trophies.

Or at a gun show trying to conduct a private sale and not get ripped off.

Last gun show I went to, there was an eldery lady with an M-1 carbine, no bayonet lug, in great shape, with matching numbers, asking $300 dollars for it.
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Really? Here's how I see it. The lady probably hates guns; hated the fact that her husband even had any guns and this was her way of getting rid of some evil junk she never wanted in the house. In fact, the Husband probably had to hide them from her. As far as the M-1 Carbine, she was probably tickled pink to get $300 - sort of like I would be if I ever had to sell some creepy antique clown doll that belonged to my wife (just an example). Maybe the creepy antique clown doll is worth $10,000 - are you going to feel sorry for me if I only get $500 for it at the annual Creepy Clown Doll Show???:D

This might be what the elderly lady saw when she looked at the M1 Carbine:

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Probably not, because I've seen both my big sisters and girlfriends collection of dolls and think they would make great small bore practice.

However, were you hurting for money when you sold the hypothetical doll?

I just felt bad thinking that elderly lady may have been hard up for cash and could have gotten a lot more for said carbine than $300, which I hope she atlast got that much for.
 
If, by some chance, the woman's father had gone through the proper NFA channels to register the gun prior to 1986, would she still be able to legally inherit it without needing to jump through the NFA hoops herself?
 
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