Please read: Collectible Ordnance and the BATF

[JimKindred]

Re: Please read: Collectible Ordnance and the BATF

What is a destructive device?

“Destructive device” is a type of firearm listed in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(a), and includes any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas - - (i) bomb, (ii) grenade, (iii) rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, (iv) missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, (v) mine, or (vi) device similar to any of the devices described in the preceding clauses; any type of weapon which will, or which may be readily converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter; or any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any device into any destructive device listed above. For a more detailed definition, refer to 26 U.S.C. § 5845(f).

[fortdonelsonrelics]

Re: Please read: Collectible Ordnance and the BATF

This is why I posted the regulations as well as the "Excemptions" which you will see clearly allows for civil war ordinance and other antique weapons. This is fact.

I take this post as one agent's interpretation of what he (not Grenadier, but his friend) thinks the law is. This is why we have courts (and do I dare say attorneys) which are the ones who will be the deciding factor.

I am looking at my original Bannerman 1945 catalog and in it he says that he purchased alot of his weapons and ordinance. Here is one quote, "Purchased from the Ordnance Deparment Brooklyn Navy Yard after the Spanish American War".


John Walsh