Originally Posted by
cplstevennorton
It's always the hardest emails I write as it's never a fun thing to say. Speaking of fake paperwork. Someone just bought a Unertl Sniper off Rock Island with a faked document pretty much like you describe. They took one of the sales documents from the M1952 Snipers that the Quantico Museum traded in 1970, and superimposed a M1903A1 Unertl rifle serial and description. It wasn't a good fake at all, as you could tell the writing was done with a computer and not a typerwriter as the originals. But it still brought $40,000.
I had informed the original seller of the rifle before it went to auction, the paperwork was fake, and the rifle was a clone. But it still went to the RIA auction as real, and the current owner tracked me down after to show me his prize.
That was the hardest email I have ever wrote in my life. He had 40k in that rifle.
It's very, very sad that people do this. I couldn't sleep at night if I did that to people... :(