Armslist is hit or miss. I get the feeling that local Mass FFL's will pose as sellers selling neat things for cheap. You will talk to them via email and the guy will be like "oh hey meet me at this gun store at this time" Then you get there and the guy won't answer emails or phone calls and the local shop will be like. "yeah no one came in looking to transfer a K98, but I got this great $400 beat to shit last ditch Arisaka it's just as good as a K98"
As someone whose worked behind the counter a few times, nobody is going to waste that kind of time setting up a ruse to try to con some guy into buying a shitty milsurp. Does not compute.
-Mike