![]() ![]() Usually this means anything of any military usefulness is destroyed–guns, HUMVEES, M151 Jeeps, etc. The Defense Department does not sell any used ordnance or equipment unless it is demilitarized. Even with a dealer’s license, the transfer taxes must still be paid, but some of the paperwork involved in the transfer is reduced, such as for the background investigation. The license fee to be a dealer in “destructive devices” (tanks, artillery, and bombs, for example) is considerably steeper, at $1,000 a year. ![]() The Class III FFL (Federal Firearms License) is good for three years, and a renewal fee of $90 must continue to be paid in order to maintain the license, every three years. Machinegun enthusiasts opt for the dealer’s license also, if they want to buy more than one NFA weapon. To become a registered owner of NFA weapons, a complete FBI background investigation is done, checking for any criminal history or tendencies toward violence, and an application must be submitted to the BATF including two sets of fingerprints, a recent photo, and sworn affidavit that transfer of the NFA firearm is of “reasonable necessity” and that sale to and possession of the weapon by the applicant “would be consistent with public safety.” Because the transfer tax for one NFA weapon is just as high as the cost of a Class III dealer’s license, most all fall under the auspices of the National Firearms Act of 1934 as “other destructive devices.” In general this means they may be privately owned, subject to the payment of a transfer tax, and filling out all of the requisite paperwork.Īlthough this quote is talking more about ownership of machineguns, the paperwork and tax issues are the same–From Īll NFA weapons are subject to a $200 tax every time their ownership changes from one federally registered owner to another, and each new NFA weapon is subject to a manufacturing tax when it is made, and it must be registered with the BATF in its National Firearms Registry. ![]()
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