Harrington & Richardson Model 4 survival rifle

While on vacation I stopped by to see a friend and he showed me a rifle he had gotten from his late grandfather. I know that you will tell me that it is not legal to own in its present configuration. The rifle is in mint condition and I doubt that it has ever been fired. The serial number on both the action and the barrel match-45,XXX. When was it made, what would it be worth if it could legally sold, and how would a person go about getting it registered so that it could be legally owned. It is a cool little piece of history. Thanks for the help.

All I can advise you at this point is that since you have posted knowledge of a unregistered NFA weapon, it must be turned in to ATF. Anything else is a violation of all sorts of laws.

I will pass that on.

Plan 1 -Sell barrel assmly to someone. He now has a reciever with no barrel and it's now no longer a SBR . Register the reciever as a SBR on a Form 1 ( making form ) . When the paperwork comes back , buy a barrel assmly ( be sure to get a dated bill of sale on it ) and attach it ( you just made a SBR ) .
Plan two - attach an extension to the bbls to make them legal length . It needs to be pinned on with a blind holed pin and welded . Again , no longer a SBR , so legal.
Chris

I will pass this on to him the next time I am out his way. If it was mine, I would go with plan 2. Thanks

Well, it's all fine except for the current contraband status. If you can sort paperwork, then that's fine. Excellent, in fact. But there's the small matter of what happens beforehand...

If it is indeed with a friend and not in Tom's posession , Tom's OK . They can't track Tom's friend through these posts. Tom has no legal requirement to tell them anything about his friend , even if asked. I do not feel this gun is likely to be used in a crime . Once the gun has been made legal , it's legal. If it was me , I'd go with plan A to preserve history . If Tom's friend lives where SBRs are not allowed , then Plan B would be used.

But , yes , Jmoore is correct too. If you live in a bad area ( gun law wise ) and not on first name terms with many of the local LE people as I am , well , error on the side of caution. I sometimes forget how good I've got it here.
Chris

I'm cautious only because the outcomes can be vastly different depending on the attitude of the individual enforcement officers that may or may not feel like pursuing the proscecution of a vicitmless crime.

It does belong to a friend-I tried to buy it but no luck. I am sure that it will go in a closet and never see the light of day until his kids end up with it