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How Does the ATF View a Nylon 66?
fugawe
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My understanding is that the receiver is the gun. The receiver( the part that contains all of the gun's internals) in the case of the Nylon 66 is the stock itself. The serial numbers are either on the barrel or the receiver cover. Stocks are frequently sold on ebay and RFC without going through FFL's. How does the ATF see this?
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I hated the iron sights, especially the front. That thing snagged on everything.
I was bunny hunting at 30 below on Christmas day. The rifle cycled so slowly I could watch the bolt come back, then at the start of forward movement the next round would leap into the chamber and some time later the bolt would follow up to battery. Never saw anything like that. Even dad was impressed with the slow mo show.
Yes, the receiver is the gun. Sorta. Ever see a 1917 or 1919 belt fed 30 cal machinegun? The 'receiver" for those is the right hand side plate. Everything else is just parts.
I went back and pulled my Nylon 66 out of the safe- along with the owner's manual. Markings on the left rear of the barrel are not a serial number- factory date code. Mine does not have a serial number- made before the 1968 GCA- but the owners manual shows the "Receiver Cover"- part 39 on the parts diagram, as a "Restricted Part"- pretty sure THAT sheet metal cover is the agreed upon "receiver" for that rifle. But the stock is just parts.
It does not matter the part or function of the part.
The serial number is stamped on the sheet metal cover.
THAT is the gun in the eyes of the law.
Thickness of steel, what it does or does not do, what parts it holds has
no bearing on what is the gun.
IE.. you can own a complete .30 cal Browning machine gun, but if you
have the one side plate needed to cover the "Receiver", you better have the paperwork from the ATF.
With this sort of design (or any design with an easily replaceable barrel), having a SN on the barrel would be just as questionable.
BATFE is a dinosaur in the real world and it's basis is obsolete.
babun: I can't, of course, show where it states that in the regs. since, doubtless, it's not there but Husqvarna serial numbered the barrels, not the receivers, on their commercial sporters. I'm thinking this was probably in the pre-'68 days. There are quite a few of those rifles around and I haven't heard of problems.
There are some European made Mauser 98 type rifles with the serial # on the barrel, not the receiver, but I'm pretty sure the action/receiver would be considered the critical component.
Show me where in the laws that's stated please. You may find that any gun that after 2002 have changed to move the number to the
"receiver"
I believe IF a gun has a serial number, the part with the number is the
"gun".
Some early guns don't have any numbers, then a certain part may be
deemed the "gun".