Yugo M59 SKS - C&R Eligible?

[tygerpaw]

Anybody? I've seen on some sites that they say the SKS is not C&R eligible to CA.

Thanks.

[Pthfndr]

Anybody? I've seen on some sites that they say the SKS is not C&R eligible to CA.

Thanks.

Not eligible to be shipped to a C&R holder in CA (CA 50 year rule). Though you can buy one with your C&R while out of state and bring it back.

[jl1252]

According to the C&R list on the ATF site:

"Yugoslavian manufactured rifles M59 and M59/66, 7.62 x 39mm caliber, all semiautomatic variations and having a fixed magazine, manufactured from 1947 to 1992."

I'm guessin an M59 made prior to '56 would be eligible, right?

jl1252

[gunlector]

sks legal

as a c&r holder I have bought both the 59 & the 59/66 ca. converted of course. it is legal to buy them over the internet in kalifornia.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

as a c&r holder I have bought both the 59 & the 59/66 ca. converted of course. it is legal to buy them over the internet in kalifornia.

While it is possible to buy them over the internet, and at least two distributors I know of will ship them to a California C&R FFL, it is not legal.

[tygerpaw]

Which two distributors will?

[timmy8151]

Interordnance and Classic Arms

[pogo]

I'm guessin an M59 made prior to '56 would be eligible, right? jl1252

Yugo M59 SKS production didn't start until 1959, but in a few more years they'll be CA C&R OK.

[lucky777]

You might want to check out Turner's if there is one by you. They had one in stock and I put a deposit on it. I do not have a C&R and did not want to pay the fees to have someone else transfer it.

[Santa Cruz Armory]

Yugo SKS with C&R

as a c&r holder I have bought both the 59 & the 59/66 ca. converted of course. it is legal to buy them over the internet in kalifornia.

You may have purchased them but you didn't do it through your C&R FFL right? If you did that wouldn't look to good in the ol' bound book...

[moulton]

I love my SKS

[Mssr. Eleganté]

You may have purchased them but you didn't do it through your C&R FFL right? If you did that wouldn't look to good in the ol' bound book...

Actually there is no way to tell by looking in a bound book whether something was purchased over the internet or in person. If you purchase a Yugo M59 from a dealer while out of state and bring it back to California with you it would be logged into your bound book exactly the same way as one you had shipped to you from the same out of state dealer. And the out of state dealer's bound book entry would look the same whether he shipped it to you or sold it to you face to face.

[Santa Cruz Armory]

Thanks for setting me straight...

You may have purchased them but you didn't do it through your C&R FFL right? If you did that wouldn't look to good in the ol' bound book...

Actually there is no way to tell by looking in a bound book whether something was purchased over the internet or in person. If you purchase a Yugo M59 from a dealer while out of state and bring it back to California with you it would be logged into your bound book exactly the same way as one you had shipped to you from the same out of state dealer. And the out of state dealer's bound book entry would look the same whether he shipped it to you or sold it to you face to face.

Ahh, I see! I just got my FFL 03 and am still learning the "ropes"

Thanks for the info. I need to go buy an SKS

[saki302]

That's the ultimate retarded CA rule. We can buy ANY C&R long gun or pistol IN PERSON out of state, but not through the mail where there is a clear and traceable point of origin. Figures..

-Dave

[M. D. Van Norman]

Does an interstate mail-order sale occur inside California (subject to the 50-year rule) or outside California (not subject to the 50-year rule)? Lacking any case law to answer this question, I would have to assume that only personal interpretations apply.