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Sure it does. Im guessing black powder, Damascus steel?Define "Antique."
It's not a rifle, but one of my shotties belonged to my dad's uncle, who died in the 1918 Flu pandemic. Does that count?
I have the same issue with my 1918 Ithaca flues double. Krupp fluid steel. My gun club mandated steel target shot so its officially decommissionedNo. Fluid steel, made in 1898. Until steel shot, it was my dad's duck gun.
It's "manufactured in or before 1898", so pre-1899.Antique is pre 1898 by definition... if that matters.
Corrected the date, thanks. I agree with it being arbitrary, take the Finn M39 with pre 1889 receiver.It's "manufactured in or before 1898", so pre-1899.
There are plenty of Mausers and Lees and Mosin-Nagants made before 1899 that are functionally identical to ones made for decades afterwards.
It's a stupidly arbitrary definition, but compared to ATF's proposed "SBR-v.-pistol" rules, it's a thing of beauty.