Prop guns, anyone deal with them?

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Working on finishing up things with an estate, there is a prop gun.

Does anyone deal them? I know transferring is not possible but trying to find out if there are any prop companies that deal in them.

It is a revolver replica.

Thanks
 
If it is a replica of an antique revolver...no problem. If it is a replica of a modern revolver ( BB and Pellet guns exempt) it is as far as I know Prohibited. This you may already know so the question is: can a prop company legally use and posses what for most of us is a prohibited item?
I don't know but would also like to find out.
 
If it is a replica of an antique revolver...no problem. If it is a replica of a modern revolver ( BB and Pellet guns exempt) it is as far as I know Prohibited. This you may already know so the question is: can a prop company legally use and posses what for most of us is a prohibited item?
I don't know but would also like to find out.

There are companies that are allowed to deal in prop guns, they have a specific license for it.
If you were in possession of the gun before 1998 then you can keep it, after that you cannot, it is a weird grandfathered prohibited device.
Since the estate is not closed the person who died is not off the books yet, meaning that as long as the estate is open the executor can hold any items of the deceased including the grandfathered prohibited device.

Weird rules, but this is how things work, non-restricted, restricted and 12(x) prohibs are similar, the executor carries over the license of the deceased until the estate is closed.

This stuff is teaching me a lot, for the love of God write out a good detailed will.
 
YOU need to be more specific by what you describe as a "PROP" gun.

Many prop guns are made up to look like real guns but can't be fired. Not even blanks. Some are made up from real firearms and will accept blanks. The frame of course on these remains functional and needs to be registered. Some have everything that moves welded into place and can or have been removed from the registry.

I bought a whole bunch of "PROP" guns from an auction in California appx 35 years ago. They weren't described as such and I wouldn't have expected them at a military surplus auction. Everything there was on a list with lot numbers or batch numbers. That was it, no more descriptions.

When I got the box open, it was full of what appeared to be 1911 Colt semi autos. Well, they were replicas, solid cast hard black rubber, impregnated with lead to give them the same weight as a real pistol. Apparently, the MPs weren't allowed to carry real firearms and were issued these instead. They made great clubs and from what I was told, they were used as such regularly.

So please, if you want your question answered properly ask the proper question, with a proper description of what you are selling.
 
The gun is a metal revolver that has no hole in it for a projectile, it is not a gun as it has no barrel. It looks identical to a modern revolver, it has the weight of a metal revolver and would be confused as a modern revolver.
It wouldbe something that they would use in the movies, if it fired anything then it would be fine, it would be either a blank gun, a pellet gun or a restricted gun, this does not fire anything, hense a replica firearm.

I was curious if anyone dealt with them and I would give details to that person or group, I have no pictures as of yet and may not bother getting any if there is no interest at all.

Thanks
 
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