highdesert wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:19 pm
I understand there is a difference between an FFL and a C&R, but we only have the gun store owners word that the ATF raid was because of that rifle. A reproduction 1898 Krag-Jorgensen is not the same as an original as sig pointed out, it has to be in manufactured in 1898. And ATF said they had been working on that case for some time, which makes me think there were some other questionable sales. I'm not here to defend ATF, they have to make their case in court.
A C&R license is a Type 3 FFL.
But antiques are another and separate classification. It is not terribly complex but there is the onus of establishing a manufacturing date when the records are most likely long, long gone.
There are other possibilities; a gun using a primitive firing system such as flint or match lock, even percussion caps MAY be an antique. That can also include modern replicas as long as they have not been modified to fire rimfire or centerfire ammo.
So for now we simply know that it would be very difficult to establish a Krag 1898 as an antique. There is lots to this story that has not and quite likely will not be divulged.