Sta. Barbara Mauser Import Question

[LuciusKang]

I just inherited a Santa Barbara Mauser, but its in Germany. I know that The receiver, barrel and bolt assembly for these rifles were made together, but that sometimes customs stocks were added. This rifle has been in the same configuration since the early 70s and my uncle bought it assembled and made no mods to it.

Would there be any issues importing this firearm? I do not know if the Santa Barbara mauser actions qualify as "military" firearms and if adding a stock to it is considered a "modification" and is thereby prohibited from importation.

Anyone have any experience or knowledge on this?

[Sailormilan2]

More than likely, it is a commercially shaped Mauser. That means, the charger clip hump will be gone, and it will have no thumb notch. It will be Drill & Tapped for 4 scope mount holes. It will have an adjustable trigger and a hinged floorplate on the trigger gaurd/mag box. SB receivers were castings, and usually had the word "Spain" stamped/cast into the left hand tang side below the wood line.
The bolt handle will be forged over for low scope mounting.
With all these features, it should be easy to determine if it is considered a "military" rifle or a commercial one. While some of these features can be found on converted military, the lack of the thumb hole and the lack of the charger clip slot will be dead givaway as to it being a commercial Mauser.
Some of these were made as kits, prebarreled and headspaced. Just needing finishing of the metal and the stock.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

You are stressing too much. Just track down an FFL that does imports. Most of them should be able to do a few of them a year without any issues. People do this all the time.