Buster Brown
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So i have a pre-68 Mossberg 500AR as it has no serial #. Am i correct in saying it is c&r eligible because its over 50 years old? Seems like a stupid question but ive never seen anybody advertise a mossberg 500 as c&r.
Mossberg 500 C&R?
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somd_mustangs
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If you can prove it's 50 years old or older, it's C&R no matter how common it may be 
Hopefully the S/N wasn't removed.
Is it a 500AB vice AR?
Hopefully the S/N wasn't removed.
Is it a 500AB vice AR?
Buster Brown
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Its definitely a 500AR. Think maybe R for rifle sights. Nothings been scrubbed. Still has original anodizing. Single action bar so its definitely early. Im thinking 65-67. I know the first ones had jeweled bolts which this one doesn't.
If it was made prior to 1970 it's C&R
Buster Brown
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Just looked it up. R means it came with a vent ribbed barrel. Mine has been replaced with a 20" rifled sights and 7 round magazine
TheOriginalMexicanBob
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All firearms were required to have a unique serial number after the Gun Control Act of 1968 was signed. If the shotgun in question legitimately has no serial number it was made prior to GCA68...or was a "lunchbox special" which is not only unlikely but unprovable.
No serial number? Careful, that's the exact kind of gun MD General Assembly wants to ban.
That and my pre-68 unserialized JC Higgins .410.
Biggfoot44
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All firearms from '68 on were required to have s/n . All firearms pre 1970 are C&R .
Ergo , any factory built firearm that did not have s/n is inherently C&R .
Yes , lots of people when they hear " C&R" default visualize mass imported Surplus . But indeed , it also includes the great mass of " Normal American Sporting and Utility Firearms " that happen to age out into 50 yr old .
Ergo , any factory built firearm that did not have s/n is inherently C&R .
Yes , lots of people when they hear " C&R" default visualize mass imported Surplus . But indeed , it also includes the great mass of " Normal American Sporting and Utility Firearms " that happen to age out into 50 yr old .
Buster Brown
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Thats what I was thinking. Especially right now when people are crazy and many still avoiding going into public places. I would think most people with c&rs would have something like that but then again some collectors dont normally care about shotguns like that. That and you know how friends and family can be when they know you are a gun guy but never cared about guns till they need one. I have someone like that that lives in Baltimore and all of a sudden became scared for his life when all the lockdowns started happening. Guess whos the first person he called? When he turned 18, i gifted him a semi 22. He then sold it the first chance he got so i now say...good luck!
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