How can you tell if machine gun is C&R eligible?

[telero]

I know that the people making the decisions probably don't see it this way, but according to the definition:

Firearm curios or relics include firearms which have special value to collectors because they possess some qualities not ordinarily 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:

• Have been manufactured at least 50 years prior to the current date, but not including replicas thereof; or
• Be certified by the curator of a municipal, State, or Federal museum which exhibits firearms to be curios or relics of museum interest; or
• Derive a substantial part of their monetary value from the fact that they are novel, rare, bizarre, or from the fact of their association with some historical figure, period, or event.

It would seem that any transferable machinegun on the registry should be on the curio and relic list. The very fact that the it is on the registry gives a machinegun a substantial part of it's monetary value, making it a curio. It also makes machineguns that can be owned by civilians rare, unusual, and intriguing...the definition of a curio.

 

[K2]

Yep,

Early M-16's (Colt Armalite) are already C&R. I realize that they are a bit odd looking by modern standards but they are still F/A! I've got some Sptifires that will be C&R in another 3 years!

K2

eeek - I'm C&R!

 

[bruh44]

So when we're most of the Olympic M-16 and Colt M-16A1`s made, 1965ish?

 

[06sandstone]

Went the C&R route with my Reising M50. Nothing like having the mailman dropping off a full auto at your door step.

 

[JohnFreeman]

There's no real question there. The definition is very straightforward, if it's on the list, then it's C&R, if it's not on the list, but is 50 years old and in it's original configuration, it's also C&R.

Exactly. And there's really no "registry". There's a list of sorts (that's outdated almost as soon as it's published) but I think its value lies more in the entries that have been accepted as C&R even though they DONT meet the 50 yr rule, , than those which meet the 50 yr rule.

 

[Shattered]

In terms of federal revenue, tax stamps for NFA are a drop in the bucket.

Less than that... by a couple trillion, give or take.

 

[A&S Conversions]

So when we're most of the Olympic M-16 and Colt M-16A1`s made, 1965ish?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle

There is the basic information about the Colt M16. The early production was cutting edge technology. It would have been hard for a dealer to get one once the Big Army started ordering the gun. Other manufacturers had to wait for Colt's patent to run out before they could make their own version. As I recall that didn't happen until the early 80's. Colt did not want to sell to civilians, so if a dealer got a case of ten rifles, and three of them went to civilians and the rest to Agencies, Colt would only ship seven guns to replace those guns that were sold to an Agency. YMMV.

Scott