Rewats/rewelds

[redondhed]

:)Thanks for the info on caliber changes.  How about opinions on this:  Rewats/rewelds can never be C&R's.  The difference on the Form 4 is apparent on the entry for "Name and address of manufacturer and/or importer of firearm."  Take a Johnson M1941 for example.  The manufacturer should be Cranston Arms but if the form 4 says "Joe Smith" then it is a rewat/reweld non C&R.  

The questions are these:  The gun is an apparent reweld but on the ATF Form the original maker is the only one listed.  Is that a mistake that can/should be fixed?  Could this gun be sold as a C&R? (Providing of course Johnsons are C&R in the first place) Could the Feds be mad enough to want the gun?  If this hypothetical were mine, I would be too afraid to ask!

[RoverDave]

I'm not sure about re-wats but I know that anything built on a new receiver is not a C&R. For example, an original Sten is C&R but all the Stens out there that were built on after-market tubes are not C&R.

[redondhed]

I have been under the impression that a C&R had to be original as it left the factory.  If you took (before 1986 of course) two halves of different torch cut Stens and put them together...I feel pretty certain that would not be a C&R, but on the other hand how would you (or the ATF) know the halves were from different guns?  No biggie, but until I found you guy's website, I never knew anybody to jaw with about this kind of stuff.