The issue from a dealers perspective is the bound book. We are required to log guns in and out on a daily basis. Once a gun is logged in there is no provision I know of to log it out as "antique". If any of you have ever been through an ATF audit, I have, you understand that your goal as a dealer is to not end up with any violations in your bound book. Yes it can be more costly for a customer but I am not willing to take the risk. I import things regularly from the UK. Once they arrive I can tell some of them are antiques. It does not matter to me though because they came in on a form 6 listed as a firearm and are in my books as such. How others conduct business is completely up to them but this is a point I am not willing to argue with the ATF. I sympathize with a buyers point of view but believe in picking your battles in life as well. My pockets are not deep up enough to challenge the feds on this.


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