Information Gained From The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, that also hates being identified as BATFE and that with the loss of just one letter would be known as BATE. Whereas I prefer BA-TE or "batty." Oops, I digress. But even BATFE prefers calling itself "ATF."
Curios & Relics
A regulation implementing federal firearms laws, 27 CFR § 478.11, defines curio or relic (C&R) firearms as those which are of special interest to collectors by reason of some quality other than is associated with firearms intended for sporting use or as offensive or defensive weapons.
To be recognized as C&R items, firearms must fall within one of the following categories:
Firearms which were manufactured at least 50 years prior to the current date, but not including replicas of such firearms;
Firearms which are certified by the curator of a municipal, state, or federal museum which exhibits firearms to be curios or relics of museum interest; and
Any other firearms which derive a substantial part of their monetary value from the fact that they are novel, rare, bizarre, or because of their association with some historical figure, period, or event. (
Curios & Relics | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)
The following will take the user to 91, count 'em, ninety one pages of firearms that, for one reason or another, are on or off the Curio and Relic pages.
https://www.atf.gov/file/128116/download
When this whole C&R thing got underway (You thought it's been around, like, forever?) the ban covered 100 years of guns and they, the BATFE, listed all the guns covered. Such became rather tedious so they lopped 50 years from the original 100 and produced lists that, for the most part, identifies firearms subject to the National Firearms Act and the provisions of 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, the Gun Control Act of 1968, 1932, 1934, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, '04, '05, 2006-2024 ... heh, heh, got a little carried away, there.
Writers Note
And, no, the Associated Press guidelines do not require and, indeed, banish the use of a hyphen between otherwise conjugated adverbs ((or is it "adjectives" ... I forget)) ending in "y." And while we're on the subject of clarity in writing, as demonstrated at the end of the immediately preceding sentence, "end-quote marks" are placed outside of the period.
The late oil tycoon G. Paul Getty once said the he placed the "end-quote" on the inside of a period or other sentence-ending grammatical mark because it/they looked "lonely on the outside." Getty may well have made a lot of money in oil, for which I congratulate him because as of yet there exists no engine on earth that, pound-for-pound, creates as much energy and as efficiently as the reciprocating engine. Yes, it burns petroleum distillates. No, it's not as big as a nuclear reactor. No, it is not 100-percent efficient. But it's closer than any other engine, pound-for-pound, and including electric, which requires fossil fuels - whether coal, Natural Gas, Farts ((okay, "methane")), wind turbines ((among the MOST inefficient, dollar for dollar, and most DEADLY to wildlife. So, where's PETA? Likely cowering in a corner with other fund-raising Left Wing friends who dare not criticize another Lefty organization for fear of losing Lefty fund pledges. Ah, but I digress ... just a little. Not much. Because you should see/read my serious rants.))
That's it. I'm done. Well, for at least a couple or three minutes, anyway.
Later.
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