Isn't everything banned in CA and MA? People's Democratic Republics don't like armed citizens.
FWIW, cracked foreends are quite common on that whole Winchester series. The forward part of the bolt is a heavy weight that fits into the foreend. It is so massive that the foreend had to be made a hollow shell so thin that it can be cracked just by squeezing it in the hand.
I have seen those fixed using steel mesh in epoxy, but never did it myself.
Jim
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