SRS search for NRA Sporter confirmation

[dokcop]

Any chance this is one of the NRA Sporters issued to the FBI (part of the DOJ, of course.) Are the serial numbers of those rifles known? As a retired Agent I'd love to find one of those guns.

[Herschel]

I worked for for the U S Marshals Service from 1960 until 1990. During the early years of that period our logistical support was handled out of main Justice. When we received an order to destroy the two Model 1907 Winchesters in our office inventory I contacted the main justice officials with the naive assumption that they were unaware that they were ordering valuable collector's items destroyed. I was informed that it was DOJ policy to not sell any surplus firearms. I sincerely doubt that any 1903 NRA sporters that became surplus to FBI needs would have been legally transferred out of the FBI ownership. There may be one or two retained in the FBI laboratory.