flintoid
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Man, if I had found a STG44 in my closet no one would ever know about it.
No shit. And I'd make sure that my great great grankids would know what to do with it.
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Man, if I had found a STG44 in my closet no one would ever know about it.
I know very little about these rules and regs. If a person had come across this owner prior to the buyback and had a MG license, is there any legal way to trasnfer it? Like, lets say I knew a guy whose uncle had a BAR and wantd to get rid of it and I had a MG license, is there no way to transfer it without provenance?
This is a problematic situation.
A couple of years ago, I was talking with the ATF (in a good way...they were'nt mad at me) and mentioned that a new amnesty program for off-paper NFA stuff should be implememted, as a lot of WWII vets were going to be leavig bring-backs behind, and history would be lost.
The person agreed with me, but unfortunately was not a higher-up.
There was a "town-owned" WWI Kraut MG that had been used in parades in a north shore town (Marblehead?) that the ATF took away, becuae it was not put on paper when there was a chance.....
There is a obvious German army eagle on the barrel. It didn't occur to her that it might be valuable?
Man, if I had found a STG44 in my closet no one would ever know about it.
Collectively, most people are idiots. She saw a gun, had no idea what to do with it, I assume no one close to her had guns, she turned it in.
My 1st wife's father died about 10yrs ago. He collected all sorts of shit which he presumed valuable. One if his sons is my insurance agent, 3-4 yrs after the death I'm talking with the son and he's says "I forgot you were into shooting!"
Huh?
"When my dad died we went to the local PD with his guns, we didn't know what to do with them."
What did he have?
A couple of old army rifles and three 45's from WW2"
Friggin awesome. The cops were probably fighting over those!
No shit. And I'd make sure that my great great grankids would know what to do with it.
Man, if I had found a STG44 in my closet no one would ever know about it.
Normally I'd say you're right, but apparently she knew this came back from WWII. You don't have to know anything about guns to assume that's worth more than a $100 gift card.Please, please don't call the non-shooters stupid, or idiots. Ignorance is meerly the lack of knowledge.
Many of the posters here would know that it's a valuable item - but how many, here, have walked past a valuable piece of china, or furniture, that was worth multi-bucks, and didn't know it. How would you know, now?
Hell, many of my "scores" at estate sales surprised ME....and I bought the dam things. I once sode a book on eBay for close to $1000. I paid 25 cents for it at a rummage sale, years ago, as a joke. The buyer was probably saying about me, "Is this seller an idiot to not know what he had?"
Some people just may not be interested in firearms, or books, or whatever....think about all the potentially pricey comic books that Mom pitched when Junior moved out?
At least the PD "caught" it in time....maybe.
Normally I'd say you're right, but apparently she knew this came back from WWII. You don't have to know anything about guns to assume that's worth more than a $100 gift card.
Yes, that was a Maxim Gun captured by Alvin York in WW1 which was found in the attic of the library in Nahant.
www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/53083-Nahant-Library-and-Alvin-York-s-Maxim-Gun
It was saved from destruction and donated to Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn.
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One of my coworkers lives in central MA, in a town where BAR parts were manufactured during WW2. He claims that there's a number of them out there - stashed away in people's attics
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My guess is that for every person like this woman who does something stupid and tries to hand in a valuable firearm during a buyback program - there's ten others that are quietly found a better home and nobody is the wiser.
Nice to see the police did the right thing here. And that the proper respect to history was shown.
Terminator:
Most, if not all, of the people turning the guns in are likely unlicensed, so you can't easily do it in an FA-10. However, an FFL could do it....but the "Is this legal?" attitude will likely intrude.
Everyone knows that you can bring the guns to the cops..... but a CA$H - 4 - GUNS Van might make Nons uneasy.
That's what we need! Set up a big box truck with professional lettering so it looks official to fool the grannies turning the guns in! Have a friendly FFL on board to do the transfers too. The only thing (other than the police not liking the idea) that wouldn't work out well would be that in MA, anything non-compliant couldn't be legally transferred to a MA resident.
The problem is that probably 99% of the guns that get turned in are trash not even worth the scrap value. Sure you might get lucky here or there but not enough to cover the wasted time weeding through the junk.