SKS Question...

[Alex$]

Did you continue reading paragraph C? Keep reading until you reach (2)

P.S. see what happens when you go get coffee? Your reply is below someone else who has already drank coffee.

[CSACANNONEER]

PEZHEAD265,

Please explain how POSSESSION of a firearm which is not 922(r) compliant is illegal. You can't! There is no law forbidding ownership or sales of these guns. It is just illegal to MANUFACTURE (add non sporting features) to an imported long gun using more that 10 imported parts. How come this is so hard for you to understand?

[paul0660]

advice from a gunshow, an old time FFL about what went on 15 years ago, the CTD website, and incomplete reading of the regs will lead anyone astray.

[PEZHEAD265]

27 CFR 478.23 D does not dismiss the fact that he can come unanounced at anytime during normal hours to see your safe unless you are dragging it down to.Read C where it says premises and places of storage.The chinese SKS cant be dated so who has to show burden of proof if it was imported before 1989 or after to be legal to have a bayo.

[PEZHEAD265]

PEZHEAD265,

Please explain how POSSESSION of a firearm which is not 922(r) compliant is illegal. You can't! There is no law forbidding ownership or sales of these guns. It is just illegal to MANUFACTURE (add non sporting features) to an imported long gun using more that 10 imported parts. How come this is so hard for you to understand?

Please explain to me if it is not legal to make how did you obtain it?The gun should not exist.Is your defense is I didn't make it?Will that fly telling the ATF I don't know?Depending on how serious it is that is something I would not want to hire a lawyer for.

[CSACANNONEER]

27 CFR 478.23 D does not dismiss the fact that he can come unanounced at anytime during normal hours to see your safe unless you are dragging it down to.Read C where it says premises and places of storage.The chinese SKS cant be dated so who has to show burden of proof if it was imported before 1989 or after to be legal to have a bayo.

Yes comrad, you are correct. Unless you prove your innocense, you are alway guilty in America!

Please explain to me if it is not legal to make how did you obtain it?The gun should not exist.Is your defense is I didn't make it?Will that fly telling the ATF I don't know?Depending on how serious it is that is something I would not want to hire a lawyer for.

There are many of these guns which get bought and sold by FFLs every day. I don't know of an FFL who strips every rifle down and counts imported parts. In all reality, they don't need to since, there is no law forbidding the purchase or sale of these guns. 99.9% of gun owners don't have a clue about 922(r) and just buy these guns at their FFLs without worry.

[FS00008]

PEZHEAD, you're so full of it that you're now the first person I have EVER added to my ignore list. Be happy about this. I sincerely hope that you don't spread these nuggets of idiocy to people who are just now getting into the shooting sports.

[WALDSCHRAT]

I have a Vietnam bringback factory 26 SKS with spike bayonet and war trophy paperwork from 1969. Am I ok with the feds?

[Mssr. Eleganté]

I have a Vietnam bringback factory 26 SKS with spike bayonet and war trophy paperwork from 1969. Am I ok with the feds?

Yes, you are fine. The restriction on importing Chinese SKS's with bayonets didn't come about until 1989. And that restriction had zero effect on rifles that were already here at that time.

[mosinnagantm9130]

I have a Vietnam bringback factory 26 SKS with spike bayonet and war trophy paperwork from 1969. Am I ok with the feds?

That one sounds like a keeper.

[FS00008]

Guys, don't listen to anything that PEZHEAD idiot is saying. He's getting his information from a company that says AR15 cleaning kits are illegal in California. Bayonets are NOT illegal on Chinese SKS style rifles.

[Spiggy]

^ +1

First rule of digging holes:

If you find yourself in one, Stop digging

Wonder if in his little world, a new import mosin M44 would be illegal because the barrel-bayonet lug...

[sevensix2x51]

wait; so now my home has normal business hours? hmm. im at WORK during normal business hours... so i guess ill have to make an appointment to show up at their local office....

[ledman]

Only the factory 26 models. There are many others.

The problem with what pezhead said is that he thinks the burden of proof is elsewhere than on the police or ATF. This isn't France, yet.

True, there are many others like the Romanian and the Yugo M59's that are hard to tell the MFG date, but with a little research, you can find out how to read the dates. I have had 6 SKS rifles so I had to know about them, although you are correct, some are more difficult to read.
My Chi-Com was a Factory 26 also

Here was the Chi-Com that I used to own, note, bayo STILL attached. I would think they (BATFE) would rather worry about the projectile flying out of the muzzle rather than the bayonet, lol
I sold this rifle, and did a legal PPT at Iron sights in Oceanside CA. No issues with the bayonet at all, perfectly legal.

Here is a pic, it is the SKS right smack dab in the middle there, NOTE, it has it's bayonet.


The other SKS rifles are from left to right, a Yugo 59/66, a Laminated Tula '54 Russian and of course the Chi-Come made in 1980, and a 1974 Albainian SKS and finally a Yugo M59 that I could never pinpoint the MFG date on other than it was made between 1959-66.
I had another Russian SKS Tula '53.
I am sorry to say, I fell on hard times this year, and I had to sell all 6 of my SKS rifles. I am very sad, as I miss them in my gun cabinet in my living room. I sold them all here on Calguns, so they all went to foo homes.
They made for great conversation when I had company over.