M-16's

[gjp220]

Hi Folks...I need some help:soap:
I have a chance to buy several M-16's from a local police dept. Is there anyway to check to see if I can purchase these guns from the PD.I have the serial #'s.They are Colt M-16 a2's ....Colt was no help what so ever...Is there a web site where I can Check the numbers or a Class 3 Dealer you can recomend??
Thanks in advance. ;b

[r2kba]

You need to ask the PD, not the ATF. I believe they need to be transfered on a Form5?

[UZIFORME]

Police depts. are clueless typically as to what they have, how long they have had them or what forms they are registered on even if they are registered. If you actually found a police dept. with several transferable Colt M16A2s for sale and no clue as to thier value, then you have a wonderfull opportunity for a tax refund. I kind of bet they are post samples, because factory A2s before 1986 are pretty rare guns. You will need to contact the ATF NFA branch at 202 927 8671 and explain to the person who answers that you need to run some serial numbers to see if these guns are transferable, pre-sample, post sample or form 10 guns as you are intending to make a purchase. You minimum will need to know who the guns serial numbers and the name of the dept. these are registered too. Now if the ATF follows thier rules they will not tell you because you have no damn business running the serial numbers of guns that are not registered to you, but they might tell you and might not. If/Whan the ATF will not tell you how the guns are registered, then you will need to get the Police Dept. to call the ATF/NFA branch and check/run the serial numbers to find out the legal status of the guns. There is a chance that the police dept. has the original order info from Colt, if it's before 1986 then you should be ok, but make something in a legal purchase contract about your offer being keyed to the transferable status of the guns, if they are posties then an A1 is worth about $500 or less depending upon condition, and you as an individual can not posses it at all and a dealer can only buy/sell one at a time not a bunch of them. Of course when the PD figures out each gun could be worth 13k each they will no longer sell them to you, they will auction them off to higher bidder, fighting one dealer against another, so somehow you have to show interest but not so much interest that they check other places to see why this guy is showing so much interest.

[UZIFORME]

The second was the M16A2 which entered service in the 1980s and is intended to fire the Belgian M855/M856 rounds (5.56 mm NATO) and can fire single shot or three-round burst. There are various complications (Both types can fire either round, hybrid versions, etc.), but this was the overall situation.


Since entered service in the 1980s and 86 was the cutoff, that is why the A2 guns are rare, not many years to get them into the market.