At a recent gun show I saw an older .44 special HE with fixed sights. It had a 6" barrel with a smooth bore and the seller said it was shipped from S&W as is for shooting snakes. Does this sound familiar? He wanted $1,400.00. Thanks
Smooth bore .44 special
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Wyatt Burp
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Could have been ordered by a trick shooter. There's a couple Colt New Service .45s in smoothbore out there. One ordered by Johnny Baker, trick shooter with Buffalo Bill and sometimes described as his adopted son.
NFA paperwork / tax stamp with it?
Special ordered back when it was legal or not, unless it was registered with the feds like a machine gun it has been contraband since 1937 or the date it was customized, which ever is later.
Since there are thousands of perfectly legal guns offered for sale every day why trouble yourself with an illegal one with a ruined barrel?
Since there are thousands of perfectly legal guns offered for sale every day why trouble yourself with an illegal one with a ruined barrel?
There is at least one out there that came from the factory without rifling:
http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-ha...pics-1-a.html?highlight=Smoothbore+44+special
http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-ha...pics-1-a.html?highlight=Smoothbore+44+special
I didn't take it that you were in any way troubling yourself over it.
Very rare and worth a whole lot more with proper registration. Seller knows it's an illegal firearm and just wants to dump it for $1400 to make a quick buck.
Wouldn't it be easy to get a permit for though. AOW (any other weapon) permit is only $5. Or is it now difficult because the gun has no paper work now?
Drag a scratch down the inside of the barrel and say it is 1 in 500" rifling. LOL. Never seen a legal spec on rate of twist, number of nessecary grooves or necessary depth of rifling.
I wouldn't want it myself. Just curious.
Drag a scratch down the inside of the barrel and say it is 1 in 500" rifling. LOL. Never seen a legal spec on rate of twist, number of nessecary grooves or necessary depth of rifling.
I wouldn't want it myself. Just curious.
No one has said this yet but couldn't it just
Be severely leaded ?
Be severely leaded ?
$5 to transfer an already registered AOw,,,but..
$200 tax to make/mfg an AOW.
The application, tax payment to do so must be recv'd & OK'd before mfg begins.
The gun must be marked with the AOW's Mfg name/City & State in compliance with BATF firearms marking regs.
All spelled out on the BATF Form
https://www.atf.gov/file/11281/download
It's not hard to do,,just takes some time for the processing and of course costs you $200.
*Best not to have an unregistered NFA Weapon lying around the house at anytime.
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If the gun letters as a smoothbore, as Dan's did, you can petition BATF to exempt it from the Class 3 category. I did this with a stocked .22 H&R Handi-gun, and the C&R list now shows that gun as exempted by serial number. The risk is that BATF told me to send them the gun and they would either exempt it or keep it. If it letters, they would probably do the former; if it doesn't, probably the latter.
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