Originally Posted by
excelerate
Well I'll be, I thought for sure they didn't import any before 86. I heard rumors that some cut receivers were imported and rebuilt before then, but obviously they couldn't have been done as a whole gun since a light machine gun probably didn't fall under sporting purposes after the 68 GCA.
Either that or the registered example has some shenanigans involved. I've also heard rumors of people cutting the serial number off of a registered machine gun and welding it to a completely different receiver, or various inducements to the NFA branch to register a post-sample as transferable even though it falls outside the required date range.
Regardless, it won't be something I will have to worry about anytime soon if they're going for $500k+