kyle Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Can someone please explain this term? Is this where someone welds together a cut up receiver? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig101 Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 some dewats did have their receivers cut, but they were still registered as dewats. i saw a DEWAT a few years back, a BAR winnie i think, that had been welded back together. it had the DEWAT paperwork too. so yes, a dewat could mean that the receiver was welded together IF it was registered as a DEWAT prior to 1968. no, if it was welded back together post 1968-pre may 19 1986, then it is just a transferable MG. No, if it was welded back together post-1986, then it is a post sample MG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig101 Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 i understand what he was asking, i was saying that i have seen with my eyes, a registered DEWAT that was dewated by way of cutting the receiver in half. so a rewat could have entailed rewelding the receiver, although i do agree that cut up guns as dewats would be rather rare. usually they welded the barrel or chamber shut. it doesn't matter if you or I think a cut receiver would remove it from the NFA, the IRS (pre-ATF) took the gun as a DEWAT and registered it as such. I wish they would have used other methods of deactivating it, but they did what they did. hell back in the day, a saw cut would demil a receiver. now it has to be torch cut in 3 places, in certain places no less. times change. my Savage 28 that i am buying is a rewat. it had some stellite put in both ends of the barrel. bitch to get out, i hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle Posted January 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 I'm even more confused. Let's start at the beginning. 1. Physically, how would one (US Govt) "DeWaT" a Thompson SMG? 2. Only "DeWats" or "ReWaTs" registered before May, 1986 are fully transferable today, right? 3. Someone wrote me that 1/2 of the currently transferable WWII weapons were "DeWats" at one time. Could that be right? Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig101 Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 ok, 1. if a civilian wanted to DEWAT their thompson, they would need to have a registered Thompson already. regular civilians can no longer (after 1986) deactivate by welding the barrel/bolt shut anymore, it would be a post sample for C2 only. i have not seen many new DEWATS, the only one i have seen is a Mac-10 receiver, which was flattened. i mean flat as a pancake. the dealer applied to make it a DEWAT and the ATF approved it. he had been selling it as a dewat. thats the only new dewat i have seen. back in the day, welding the bolt/barrel was enough to make it a dewat. hell you could weld a nickel/dime on the end of the barrel and it was OK. now a days, they consider that a live gun, not a dewat. the only hassle they may give you, is what form it should go on, form 4 or 5 or 3 i guess. 2. only machine guns registered before May 19, 1986 are fully transferable, unless it was imported post-1968, pre-1986, then it is a pre-dealer sample. so yes, only dewats/rewats registered before May 19, 1986 are transferable. the other ones are for special people. ;-) 3. there are a lot of Dewat/rewat thompsons. i don't know about 1/2 thought. but there are a lot. it's hard to explain this in words. easier spoken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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