Have You found a Antique Firearm ?

Hello Avgustus ,
                      to the forum, In many cases You can keep these firearms, as long as You have the apporate paperwork, Here in the United States for example there is what is called a curio & relics License issuded by ATF ( alcohol tobacco & Firearms) which cost 30.00
for 3 years and under this lic. there is a list of firarms that you can purchase as a collector. Most WW2 weapons are on this lic. Including a variety of Machine Guns. This lic however dose not allow you to buy and sell like a regular firarms dealer. This licence only allows you to collect said firearms, For your own collection. the good side to this is that you can obtain certain firarms at a considerable discount, if purchased, the downfall to having this licence is that You are subject to the same scrunity as a regular firarms dealer. which means that ATF
can enter your property where such lic is issuded and arms are stored, anytime day or night without a warrrent to inspect your records and arms.
                    There is a few other ways you can have these fully automatic weapons leagly,
one is by having the weapon turned into what is called a Dwat( Which makes the weapon only good as a wall hanger. by usally wealding the bolt closed and a rod welded in place in the barrel. there are severl other ways the firearm can be made this way. It sepends on whats on ATF's Mind at the time. another way if You wish to restore said weapon if its found in relic condition is to place what is called a dummy reciever which makes it impossible to chamber ammunition to fire. and finally in some states you can own a fully automatic weapon, As long as the state itself has no restrictions and You have a federal Licence to Own a Class3 Weapon
( MachineGun) and you have paid all fee's including the Machinegun tax stamp for each indivudal machingun. which last i knew was 75.00. the only Machinegun that does not fall into this catigory in the united states is a gattling gun. Most guns if found in relic conditon are ok to own, with the exception of some major cities here which certain guns are banned ie, New York City, and the entire state of califorina has huge gun ban list. I hope this helps somewhat.
anyone needing any further info please feel free to ask me.. Best Wishes ,,,Rob
if anyone

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  This was found on a farm in south carolina about 1 mile from a cival war battlefield and near the creek that runs down to the battlefield
Wow what a find congrats

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Found an old 8mm rifle, fires and shoots good 

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It looks like a French 'foweling piece'

Posted on: January 09, 2011, 10:08:35 PM

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Today I found a  Crossman bb pistol. It is a heavy thing made of cast metal and it got my heart pumping until I got the dirt cleaned off and saw the word Crossman. 

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Thank you for reply, I hope you are feeling better.  Here are a few more pictures.  I had the writing translated and it says who made
it but I have mislaid the transcript.  I will post it if I can find it.  Your help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you, Chym

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