what to do?

[todd doyka]

a friend of mine whose grandfather passed away, got his rifle collection. bolts, pumps, and a few others were part of his grandfather's collection. his grandfather was a ww2 vet and he brought home a german/english/american/japanese machine gun. my friend wants to get rid of it, but he doesn't want to have to take it to the scrapyard either. is there a way he can sell it? he doesn't have a class 3 or 4? licsense, no papers were found on the gun(he thinks its a war trophy). everything seems to be intact, no torches or saws that we could see were used.
can he go to the atf? how much does it cost to sell his grandfathers gun? or should he just take it to the scrapyard?

thanks for any help you can give.

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[browningautorifle]

You can't sell something like that without paperwork. You can't just toss it into the scrapyard either. There's several US dealers here that have dealt with things, like this so hang on they'll be along...

[Vincent]

Some of those old saw cut machine gun parts kits sell for quite a bit of money on auction sites like Gunbroker.

[WarPig1976]

Why not ask what should be a convenient store, the BATFE.

[Aragorn243]

I think the last people I would approach are the authorities until I found out the ramifications of this. It's all great to say call the BATFE and then have some idiot that doesn't know the law but thinks he does screw everything up. They don't know it all. You get the right guy and you'd be fine but do you want to risk it. You could be out the gun, the money and wind up in trouble with the law. I'd probably call the NRA and get legal advice from them before going further.

[Bionicback321]

I'd probably call the NRA and get legal advice from them before going further.

I think that is the best advice I've ever heard in my life. I never would have thought of that. I'm in the same situation as the OP. You get +100 thumbs up.

[WarPig1976]

You would have to be a moron to say "I have this machine gun, can I keep it?" No, you ask in general terms what is the SOP in situations like this when it arises. The NRA is going to tell him what the law is, which is it has to be destroyed. The chance to register ended in 68'. But he needs to be the one to find that out from the horses mouth.

[todd doyka]

i never thought of calling the nra. i'll have to tell him.

thank you

[Vincent]

How did that work out?

By now you probably know the NRA is not machine gun friendly.

[jamie5070]

I would strip it down to a bare receiver and then get a torch and cut up the receiver before i called too many people.
john