
Original 68' Amnesty
#1
Posted 22 October 2004 - 02:14 PM
I have an amnesty registered M1. I was wondering what this entailed back in the day. I have heard the amnesty was "announced" in post offices across the nation. If I remember correctly the period of amnesty was one month(?) Anyone know any further details about it than that?
Who in congress supported this idea?
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but I am trying to avoid that fate. Still, curious about the amnesty.
Thanks,
Cheese
#2
Posted 22 October 2004 - 02:55 PM
As an aside, the history of the Jap gun was amazing. It was a war bring back (of course) and found it's way into an attick (no suprise there either) when the gentleman I refered to above discovered it while doing an electrical job. That was in 1956! The family that had it didn't really want the thing around and were pleased as punch to off load it to the electrician for $5. Yes, $5 U.S. The electrician had it all these years before approaching me when he was ready to sell earlier this year. Didn't buy it because I didn't have the scratch but I was real tempted. It's in good hands now though. If some of these old pieces could tell some stories........
Sorry to get off the subject, your post reminded me of that old Jap gun.
#3
Posted 22 October 2004 - 03:19 PM
Thanks,
Cheese
#4
Posted 22 October 2004 - 03:29 PM
#5
Posted 22 October 2004 - 03:42 PM
The damn thing has the original manual with it.
Off for the weekend,
Cheese
#6
Posted 22 October 2004 - 04:01 PM
Sniper
#7
Posted 22 October 2004 - 04:40 PM
Edited to add: My M1A1 was amnesty registered by a well known Class 2 manufacturer. It belonged to a marine in the pacific who gave it the to Class 2's son. The son registered it but later ran into legal trouble and transferred it to his father. I got it in 2002.
Edited by philasteen, 22 October 2004 - 04:42 PM.
#8
Posted 22 October 2004 - 06:56 PM
Gun was made in 1943, went to war as most did. Returned from the war safe and sound. Went to Mt Rainer to be reworked. It has the MR stamp on the buttstock. Around 1946, it was sold to the B&O Railroad Police. They used it and kept it until the chief of the B&O Police retired in 1965 and went to West Virginia to be the new police chief there. He took the gun with him as he was the guy who bought it for the B&O. I guess he liked it. Then in 1968 he heard about the Amnesty and registered it.It stayed with the PD in WV until they contacted me last year and I bought it. I have a letter from them stating all this info with the names and dates. Kinda kool to have that.
#9
Posted 22 October 2004 - 08:07 PM
I know of a couple of old timers that were into guns as far back as the '50s.
They had been buying all kinds of stuff for years before the amnesty in '68.
One of these gentlemen registered at least 200 guns during that 30 day period. I'm sure I remember him telling us that ATF (or was it the ATT at the time?) even sent in an agent to help him with them. What guns he didn't register or "culled out" ended up being dumped into an interstate overpass column the day they poured the concrete.
The other gentleman also, has one of the finest collections of MGs I've ever had the privilege of seeing.

#10
Posted 23 October 2004 - 05:51 AM
My 28 Savage was also amnesty registered,but at the same time was dewatted as well. I never understood why the owner dewatted this peice when it didn`t cost anymore to leave it live.He must have been familar with firearms ..he was a deputy sheriff at the time in Florida...makes no sense to me...Fortunatly the rewat will only involve a barrel swap and some restoration to the front of the receiver,all the stampings should remain intact...and it has plenty of those...first production run from Savage,on Colt machinery,GEG,Brit proofed,House of Enfield,broadhead, and NAC suffix...in other words ..well travelled...like someone said `if they could only talk`...now all the talkin`will be done in 45cal.,when it comes back from PK`s...

#11
Posted 23 October 2004 - 07:45 PM
I have an amnesty registered M1 Carbine(yes, M-1, not overstamped M-2) that I bought from a dealer in Las Vegas some of you may be familiar with, Ike Ziros. It came with the original paperwork, a Korean War bringback. The owner turned it into a sporter with a really expensive-looking stock with a high hunting-type comb. It has a Cutts compensator on the muzzle and all the metal has been re-blued with a chrome bolt. When I take it to the range to shoot, everyone things I'm sighting in my hunting rifle until I rip off a mag!
#12
Posted 24 October 2004 - 10:38 AM
#13
Posted 25 October 2004 - 06:56 AM
#14
Posted 25 October 2004 - 07:36 AM
Thanks for the details on the Amnesty.
Cheese