Luger gone, but what was it worth?

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A co-worker recently found among late grandad's old possesions (grandad died at least a decade ago) a Luger in a canvas holster along with a box of rounds. She had the police come and take the stuff away. Just curious; what could she have legally done with the hangun other than have the police take it? I saw a pic of the gun; it looked to be in nice shape. What might it have been worth?
 
Luger values are all over the map, minimum $1k for some of the commercial models, but watch for words like"Krieghoff", Vickers, any odd markings, cals.,artillary models, prices can go to $5K easily.
 
Unfortunately, if a 12(6) has never been registered and is in the hands of someone who isn't grandfathered, there isn't much that can be done without breaking the law.
 
Sad to say, but true based on personal; experience....still deactivated is better than going in the crusher....
bushwhacker said:
Unfortunately, if a 12(6) has never been registered and is in the hands of someone who isn't grandfathered, there isn't much that can be done without breaking the law.
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If the original barrel didn't happen to be in it, it should be able to be registered as a reciever only. Non restricted barrels are available, and it would still make a fairly desireable addition to many collections with a replacement barrel. Better than welding it up, in my opinion. Far better than turning it in to become scrap metal :puke:.
 
I spent a long time on the phone recently trying to find a solution for someone who had to do something with a 12(6) that had never been registered. Short of going public and asking for someone who had 12(6) who was willing to go through the illegalities of picking it up and registering it, which I was certainly not going to do, the only option was to call the constabulary to come and get it.
 
bushwhacker said:
I spent a long time on the phone recently trying to find a solution for someone who had to do something with a 12(6) that had never been registered. Short of going public and asking for someone who had 12(6) who was willing to go through the illegalities of picking it up and registering it, which I was certainly not going to do, the only option was to call the constabulary to come and get it.
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As I mentioned above, if the barrel isn't in it, it is only a receiver or frame, no longer prohibited. I am currently in the process of doing one of these now. Of course, if the barrel is removed it must be destroyed, but at least you could have saved the frame for later use. I saw a photo a while back (maybe on here?) of a Liberator that had a new barrel made for it. The owner even pinned and welded the original barrel so that it was no longer a "prohibited device". As I understand it, a complete 12(6) that has never been registered cannot be registered now, even by one of us who is grandfathered.
 
I was the guy with the "artillery liberator". The barrel on it is 106.7 mm long, a whopping increase of almost 5mm over the original. I haven't shot it yet, and I feel bad about having had to mess with such a historic piece. Even the firearms tech in Ottawa tried to talk me out of it.

You cannot merely remove the barrel of a prohib and then call it a restricted only frame/receiver. You must have a longer barrel installed and then you can register it as a restricted. And you are correct that the CFC considers the short barrel a prohibited device. I have seen more than a few loose barrels for sale in the junk boxes at gun shows, so I can't say how well the CFC's interpretation of a "prohibited device" is being enforced.

If the FRT entry for a particular gun is only prohib, then trying to register a "found" gun cannot be done by merely removing the barrel. Although I did own one of the artillery Lugers, I do not know enough about them to say if the FRT can distinguish the frame of an arty luger from a run of the mill prohib version.

I also think someone mentioned recently that the CFC was now not allowing certain conversions of the prohibs, although that may have been caliber changes on the .25s and .32s.
 
Don't feel bad ninepointer... your situation or that of this Luger pales in comparison to the theft committed by EPS out here in Edmonton a few years back of a fully original MP44 Sturmgewehr from an old lady who sadly lost her husband and had the thing hanging around in the house when EPS started a gun amnesty. Then once it was over they had the nerve to show case this rare firearm on the front page of the Edmonton Journal as Lookie here joe public we the intelligent EPS have done you just cause by getting this Assault weapon off of our streets with our successfull gun progam... She lost out on a potential $3k plus, and THE Heros at EPS stole that money from her... A DISGRACE...
 
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