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Non-latin characters on an FA-10 form?
This is a discussion on Non-latin characters on an FA-10 form? within the Massachusetts Laws forums, part of the Gun Laws category; So I just bought a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 from out of state, and I went to fill out the FA-10 and ...
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03-08-2008, 11:51 AM #1Moderator
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Non-latin characters on an FA-10 form?
So I just bought a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 from out of state, and I went to fill out the FA-10 and realized that the serial number for the rifle is 'MБ337'. So... what the heck do I fill out on the FA-10 form? I have little doubt that the state's automated FA-10 scanner isn't set up to handle Cyrillic characters. But do MA regs anywhere actually specify that the serial number has to be in latin characters?
There is an importer assigned number on the receiver, 'MH8603', I could just use that...(Ob. IANAL)
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03-08-2008, 01:20 PM #2Registered User
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Use the number on the 4473 and/or receipt.
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03-08-2008, 01:22 PM #3Moderator
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C&R transaction. No 4473 and no serial number on receipt.
Originally Posted by MrTwigg
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi
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03-08-2008, 03:48 PM #4Registered User
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Originally Posted by jdubois
Aha. Then you have a very good question indeed.
Meaning I have no idea....
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03-08-2008, 03:55 PM #5NES Member
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From what little Russian I remember I am fairly certain that that's a letter "B".
**I've found a reference confirming it**
Last edited by Big_Red; 03-08-2008 at 04:00 PM.
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03-08-2008, 05:25 PM #6Moderator
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So you're suggesting I do a cyrillic to latin conversion on the serial number? Well, that's the best idea I've heard yet. Originally Posted by Big_Red
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03-08-2008, 05:43 PM #7Appleseed Instructor
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That's not YOUR problem - it's MA's. If I were you, I'd just copy the serial number EXACTLY as it appears on the gun and let the CHSB worry about it. Honestly, I doubt they'll even notice it... Originally Posted by jdubois
"When I see how few who talked so largely of death and honour are around me, and that those who are here are those whom it was least expected, I am lost in wonder and surprise. Your noisy Sons of Liberty are, I find, the very quietest in the field. An engagement or even the expectation of one gives a wonderful insight into character."
- Colonel Joseph Reed, aide to General George Washington, 1776
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03-08-2008, 06:05 PM #8Moderator
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Yeah, that option occurred to me as well. I'm sure the scanner would read the 'Б' as a '6' and it would get entered that way and begin collecting virtual dust like all the other records. Anyway, the whole affair certainly isn't causing me any angina, more of a 'huh... well now that's an interesting question...' Originally Posted by dwarven1
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03-08-2008, 07:18 PM #9NES Member
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Yeah, why not? You could enclose the aforementioned Cyrillic Alphabet with your FA-10 Originally Posted by jdubois
If that were me, I would convert it.“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man" -- Cesare Beccaria
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Did you carefully look the piece over? The importer will sometimes re-serialize the gun.
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