1903 springfield

[CGK60]

Hello is the 03 still considerd a c&r if its been turned into a sporter.

[cdtx2001]

I believe so

[maxx424]

Don't think so - Any C&R that is modified loses it's C&R status.

[gunboat]

This is a rather confusing issue to me as well. If you restock or rebarrel a 1930's winchester model 94 is it now no longer C&R?. I can see a #4 Enfield remanufactured by gibbs and sold in 1980 no longer being C&R but can see no reason why an 03 or krag sporterized in the 40's is not C&R -- Not disputing the law just not quite understanding the technicalities of it.
my ha-penny

[00BuckShot]

C&R must be in unaltered condition, restored to original condition is OK too.

[rjf]

It's over 50 years old. It is a C&R as a sporter.

[CGK60]

03

So your saying doesn't matter sporter or original still a c&r. thanks that clears things up for me.

[gunboat]

Buck shot --- you are saying a 1900 manufactured krag sporterized by cutting the barrel and installing in a carbine stock is no longer C&R? -- or as first mentioned, a m94 winchester rebarreled/restocked and new non original style sights is no longer C&R ? -- No matter when the mods were done? -- rather confusing -gb

[Xerxes]

Use to be that no matter what over 50 years was C&R.

Then the gungrabbers came along.

The ATF had a longstanding rule that C&R by name instead of age was no longer C&R if significanlty altered such that its purpose for collecting was no longer the same.

THen came those Harvard and Yale crooks that took us all on wall street and fear the great unwashed masses having firearms and we now even have one of these crooks in the whitehouse.

They formed something called the firearms technology division or some non-sense like that.

They decided to use the prior regulation to prohibit the importation of as many firearms as possible claiming their collector purpose was altered.

Then some idiot in that department actually issued a cirucular letter in behalf of that department that said by inference that this ruled also applied to those firearms over 50 years old.

I expect soon that the same will be applied to antique firearms.

This is somewhat recent, and maybe some folks still have the link to this letter on the BATFE site that they can post.

Changing a barrel or stock to something similar does not alter its status. Making it a sporter could depending upon how much altering was done.

[run8]

So this is why the Gibbs 03' w/scope I mentioned in another post is considered a new rifle?

[paratroop]

So this is why the Gibbs 03' w/scope I mentioned in another post is considered a new rifle?

i thought those were actually new production.

[run8]

Friend that ordered one said they are built from parade rifles with new barrels and such.

i thought those were actually new production.