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PRACTICAL LEGAL TIP
Some of the items regulated by the
NFA simply don’t make as much sense
as the other things it regulates.
Suppressors are really nothing more
than mufflers for your firearm—they
aren’t really firearms themselves
(notwithstanding the legal definition).
Thinking about the utility of the
suppressor, if the firearm was invented
today, you can be sure that not only
would the government not prohibit
them, OSHA would probably require
them for safety purposes! —Emily
To be classified as a curio or relic, federal law states that the firearm
must fall into one of the following three categories:
1) firearms which were manufactured at least 50 years prior to the
current date, but not including replicas thereof;
2) firearms which are certified by the curator of a municipal, state,
or federal museum which exhibits firearms to be curios or relics
of museum interest; or
3) any other firearms which derive a substantial part of their
monetary value from the fact that they are novel, rare, bizarre,
or because of their association with some historical figure,
period, or event.
See 27 CFR § 478.11.
The ATF maintains a list of firearms classified as curios or relics,
available on their website: www.atf.gov/firearms/curios-relics.
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