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BobbyT · May 12, 2009, 05:29 PM

Not any more than you'd have to prove you've never shot anyone...the onus is on them.

But I was talking about the actual likelihood that you'd ever pop up on their radar, that they'd notice someone like that, and that they'd care.

I mean you'd have to have them paying you a visit already, and someone familiar with that particular multiple-decades-out-of-production-and-probably-foreign rifle would have to be there to notice that that particular scope was never paired with it, and they'd have to have reason to believe you bought it from out of state as C&R instead of going through an 01, AND they'd have to go after you for it.

We're not talking about chopping Garand barrels down to 10" here; we're talking about a period-incorrect stock. Again, worst case is you swap it back to original before you sell to an out-of-state 03...or you just sell it to an 01 or whomever you want in-state since it's just a regular rifle at that point. It's not illegal to un-C&R a C&R; C&R rules just don't apply to it.

May 12, 2009, 05:29 PM	#12
BobbyT Senior Member Join Date: May 3, 2009 Posts: 266	Not any more than you'd have to prove you've never shot anyone...the onus is on them. But I was talking about the actual likelihood that you'd ever pop up on their radar, that they'd notice someone like that, and that they'd care. I mean you'd have to have them paying you a visit already, and someone familiar with that particular multiple-decades-out-of-production-and-probably-foreign rifle would have to be there to notice that that particular scope was never paired with it, and they'd have to have reason to believe you bought it from out of state as C&R instead of going through an 01, AND they'd have to go after you for it. We're not talking about chopping Garand barrels down to 10" here; we're talking about a period-incorrect stock. Again, worst case is you swap it back to original before you sell to an out-of-state 03...or you just sell it to an 01 or whomever you want in-state since it's just a regular rifle at that point. It's not illegal to un-C&R a C&R; C&R rules just don't apply to it.