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As long as you don’t shorten the barrel to under 16". Just a side note, any legal gun owner can sporterize a rifle, not just C&R holders.
Sure, as long as any modifications are legal mods, you can sporterize a rifle. Now, once you sporterize a C&R rifle from it’s original configuration, it is no longer considered a C&R firearm, so any sales or trades will not be eligible for C&R status. All laws must be followed as per a non C&R transaction.
Here’s an example. If you buy a C&R eligible rifle like a Mauser or Mosin and you change the stock, barrel or sights, add a scope mount, maybe a turned down bolt, etc. it is no longer a C&R rifle. You can sell it as any rifle but you cannot ship it to someone who only has a 03 C&R license, only a 01 FFL.
As a collector and C&R license holder, I will advise you personally to think very carefully before modifying any rare or historically complete old guns. There are a lot of barrelled receivers and already sporterized rifles out there from which you can build a sporter. But it’s your rifle, so you do what you want with it.
you dont need a license to sporterize a C&R any gun owner can do that however it will decrease its value…i wouldnt do it personally
If you can legally own a gun, you can sporterize it as long as the gun that you end up with is a legal firearm. No specail license is needed. However, you may not convert it into an illegal firearm such as a fully automatic weapon unless you hold a class 3 FFL.
Yes,
after you purchase a C&R gun you may do with it as you will,
EXCEPT in the case of C&R machine guns. Any modification to the reciever of a machine gun, even a C&R machine gun requires prior BATF approval.
As far as normal guns go, the only thing you are not allowed to do with a C&R is engage in the BUISNESS of SELLING firearms. Just because the license is a "collectors" license, you do not have to keep the guns in original condition, or for that matter keep them at all. you can sell or trade one OF YOUR GUNS to a buddy here and there,
You just aren’t supposed to ORDER them for him.
You can get tired of them and sell them all…As long as you are not engaging in the BUISNESS of selling guns.
(Again the exception is C&R machine guns, which must be sold to a class three dealer, transferred to another C&R, or sold to a law enforcement agency.)
Modify them to sporter configuration?
Sure!
Go for it.