Importing VZ858 from US?

Blackthorne

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I love this friggin rifle and would love to be able to take it to the next Tac Response course I attend, but alas the receiver is not allowed into the US.

The 858's in the US now are using a different a receiver made specifically to get them into the country. I don't know more about the topic.

Think it would be possible to get one the US models imported so I could us it for trips to the US?
 
Blackthorne said:
I love this friggin rifle and would love to be able to take it to the next Tac Response course I attend, but alas the receiver is not allowed into the US.

The 858's in the US now are using a different a receiver made specifically to get them into the country. I don't know more about the topic.

Think it would be possible to get one the US models imported so I could us it for trips to the US?
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Read about it in the March/April 2009 of Petersen's Rifleshooter
w ww.rifleshootermag.com
There's a good review beginning on page 20.
Good reading! :)
PP.
 
I am not too familiar with the regulation in question, but I met a shooter at my club that regularly takes his firearms to the state for competitions. I also know there is special permit for firearms that are coming in for hunting or competitions. You might be eligible. Also, the US has laws that a certain amount of parts on an imported gun has to be American made, as well as the receiver cannot be fully auto capable. This is why they change the receiver domestically.
 
ridgearms said:
I am not too familiar with the regulation in question, but I met a shooter at my club that regularly takes his firearms to the state for competitions. I also know there is special permit for firearms that are coming in for hunting or competitions. You might be eligible. Also, the US has laws that a certain amount of parts on an imported gun has to be American made, as well as the receiver cannot be fully auto capable. This is why they change the receiver domestically.
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I've been down several times and it's the receiver on the Canadian models that BATF won't allow in. It is the FA receiver. They take one look at the serial and it's a no go.

If the barrel change was a reasonable option (it's not) then I would just buy a receiver, but for the hassle I am going to go through, I might as well buy the whole damn rifle.

Anyone other than Questar do the importing thing?
 
Blackthorne said:
I've been down several times and it's the receiver on the Canadian models that BATF won't allow in. It is the FA receiver. They take one look at the serial and it's a no go.

If the barrel change was a reasonable option (it's not) then I would just buy a receiver, but for the hassle I am going to go through, I might as well buy the whole damn rifle.

Anyone other than Questar do the importing thing?
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It is not as hard as one thinks to do the paper work and get your rifle many people were doing this long before Questar came along and many continue to do so. You must get a Import permit from Dept Forgien Affairs [DFAIC]. fill it out and send it in for approval BTW make copies before and after ,contact US State Dept get paper work fill it out and send it in with the DFAIC approval permit [orginal] and wait for the US State Dept approval if granted purchase your firearm from an FFL that exports to Canada there are several that do this service.Get the serail number and register the rifle with the CFC and basically wait for the package to arrive . Thats it in a nut shell
 
In the US the VZ58 is on the list of firearms prohibited for export. You can not even legally export a buttplate screw or stock set for it. I can't see the entire rifle getting an export permit to leave the country.
 
V58 is the Full auto there for all rifles and parts are prohibited from export . The CZ 858 is a civilian model that uses a new reciever that is Semi Auto only and is sold as a Sporting Arm in the US
 
You might want to get on this soon as there appears to be a move a foot in the the US for a complete Ban of all Semi Auto firearms .
 
Savage said:
You might want to get on this soon as there appears to be a move a foot in the the US for a complete Ban of all Semi Auto firearms .
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I think thats not gonna happen anytime in the next 4 years at least if ever. Obama has a lot of other things to do and dividing the country over something the supreme court has recently upheld.
 
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