In theory ATF allows you to hand carry whatever gun you want if it were made pre-1898 back to the USA....getting it out of the country of origin is the problem. About 10 years ago, I found this fine example of home-made Pashtun art, Islamic inscriptions on the home-made brass collar and all, up in Quetta, Pakistan and bought it for $5 from a carpet merchant. I took it back to Islamabad - the Quetta airport security opened the bag...but were only curious about the golf balls I had in the luggage. The FPO at the embassy refused to mail it...so I stuck it into checked baggage, flew through Heathrow and into Chicago and back to DC....without a question being asked along the whole way.
The rear "lock" is a worm-gear screw clamp.
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