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California Importation-Mark Christian ?
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I have been missing lately, and don't know if MArk is out there or not, but would hope someone with knowledge of CA. gun laws can help me. I just tried to sell an SVT-40 here on GB and the gentleman who won the auction after getting me his commercial FFL and the Money Order had his FFL advise him the gun is not acceptable by CA standards for assault rifles. It IS on the C&R list and I am very confused as to why this deal got nixed?!?! No pistol grip...thumbhole stock...10 round mag...compensator, not flash supressor. It was made in 1943 for goodness sake! To top it off, as soon as I put it back up for sale with a no CA sales caveat, a ton of people have e-mailed me to say that this is one of the ultimate C&R CA eligible guns and they REALLY want to bid. Any ideas out there? What would you advise? Thanks in advance for any and all help!
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"When I was 14 I used to marvel at how ignorant my old man was...by the time I was 21 I was truelly amazed at how much the old bugger had learned in the intervening 7 years!" Samuel Clemens
"History is written by winners"(Patton)
"You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone!"(Al Capone)
"There is nothing lower than the human race...except the French" (Samuel Clemens)
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Here is a link to the firearms division of the CA Dept. of Justice.
At the bottom of the page are the e-mail address and phone #. If I were you I would go to the horses mouth, not be taken any internet, Philadelphia lawyers advice.
http://ag.ca.gov/firearms/
It is not listed by name in Penal Code Section 12276 and it does not have any of the "evil" features listed in Penal Code 12276.1. Also, since it is over 50 years old, it can be shipped directly to a C&R FFL holder in California. Penal Code section 12078(t)(2) exempts the rifle from the dealer transfer requirements.
Is the barrel threaded at the end so that a flash suppressor or silencer could be attached? That would nix it here in Kommiefornia. The only other thing I can think of is maybe the barrel shroud and the fact that the rifle is "capable" of accepting magazines of more than 10 rounds.
A threaded barrel is perfectly legal on a rifle. It's handguns that can't have threaded barrels. Also, it doesn't matter about the magazine potential as long as a magazine over 10 round capacity is not sent with the rifle.
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quote:Originally posted by forthhorseman
Is the barrel threaded at the end so that a flash suppressor or silencer could be attached? That would nix it here in Kommiefornia. The only other thing I can think of is maybe the barrel shroud and the fact that the rifle is "capable" of accepting magazines of more than 10 rounds.
A threaded barrel is perfectly legal on a rifle. It's handguns that can't have threaded barrels. Also, it doesn't matter about the magazine potential as long as a magazine over 10 round capacity is not sent with the rifle.
All true, but I have found, especially here in the L.A. area that most FFL dealers are so paranoid, that they won't accept guns that they fear might even come close to having a banned feature.