JiminTexas
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Lets think commercial. How about the S&W model 19 or the Colt trooper? In 4 more years or so the pre 64 Model 70 Winchesters will be elligible. Some of them are now.
But to return to reality: what precisely and legally is a C&R weapon? I assume one made before a certain year that I don't know.
Anything/everything available is on the horizon. This thread is all unrealistically presuming that the country will magically turn itself around and not continue to collapse. In reality, if you have the funds, you will be able to buy/trade whatever you want to as long as it can be had.
Actually, this thread brings up another question I've had for quite some time: Where are all the Tokarev SVT-40s? Didn't the Russians produce something like 6 million of them? They evidently kept and even refurbished most of their Mosin-Nagants, so it's reasonable to assume they kept the SVTs also. Why hasn't some Western importer found out where they are?
I was under the impression that the agreement only covered newly manufactured "sporting" arms, not C&Rs.The big problem is that during the Clinton administration, a "Voluntary Restraint Agreement" was created. If a firearm isn't on the "ok" list, Russia can't export it here. SVT-40's didn't make the list.
But to return to reality: what precisely and legally is a C&R weapon? I assume one made before a certain year that I don't know.
27 C.F.R. § 478.11 said:Curios or relics. Firearms which are of special interest to collectors by reason of some quality other than is associated with firearms intended for sporting use or as offensive or defensive weapons. To be recognized as curios or relics, firearms must fall within one of the following categories:
(a) Firearms which were manufactured at least 50 years prior to the current date, but not including replicas thereof;
(b) Firearms which are certified by the curator of a municipal, State, or Federal museum which exhibits firearms to be curios or relics of museum interest; and
(c) Any other firearms which derive a substantial part of their monetary value from the fact that they are novel, rare, bizarre, or because of their association with some historical figure, period, or event. Proof of qualification of a particular firearm under this category may be established by evidence of present value and evidence that like firearms are not available except as collector's items, or that the value of like firearms available in ordinary commercial channels is substantially less.