My great grandfather was a decorated officer in the US Airforce during the Korean War. My great uncle has a display case with his medals, and his service rifle, which is a select fire M2 Carbine. I haven't inspected it closely, so idk if it's functional or demilitarized. If it is functional idk if it registered or transferable.Has anyone heard of a scenario like this before? I can't find any examples online of an officer being given an M2 when they retired. I'm also certain that it is an M2, not an M1 Carbine.My great uncle plans to give me his guns, including that one at some point in the near future. Obviously I hope it's transferable, but I think that could only be the case if it was registered when he retired. I doubt that he submitted any paperwork for it later in his life, and I know that my great uncle never did.Any thoughts or advice?
>>64687010Unfortunate boating accident.
>>64687010Hide it. Laws come and go but you only have one heirloom.
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>>64687010Shut the fuck up about it and graciously accept your gift
>>64687452>graciously accept your giftTHEN>>64687250>Hide it.Coffin Rock, I'm telling you...
>>64687010It COULD be a semi-auto built on an M2 Carbine marked receiver, as M1 and M2 Carbines have identical receivers, the full-auto and fire selector just attaching in there. The only true way to tell would be to test it or to take it apart and see.The annoying part here is that the ATF tends to regard a receiver marked with M2 as just being a machinegun, whether or not it actually has the full fun parts installed or not, but they are also not consistent in this either, they have allowed M2 marked receivers as semi-autos, and they have allowed overstamps, but only sometimes.I would seriously look high and low to try to find any tax stamp and paperwork for the thing if it's an actual M2 Carbine, it's possible that it is registered. Potentially, the full-auto conversion parts themselves are what's registered as the machinegun.If it's not, well, I don't like to suggest people break serious laws, but I also don't like seeing historical weapons and heirlooms be senselessly destroyed, so my gut instinct would be to take it apart and store the parts hidden somewhere, packed in some good preservative grease, for in case laws ever change or there's another amnesty.You WOULD be taking a very serious legal risk by doing something like that, so I can't exactly recommend it, but I would fully emotionally understand that approach.Plan C would be to torch cut the receiver and then have the gun rebuilt on another one, but it hurts to even say that.
report it stolen.
