bigpete wrote:As some of you know,I have a shotgun that dates well back before 1900,making it an antique. However,50 odd years ago my grandpa got it registered as a legal firearm. Now,can I display it as an antique,or do I have to continue on as I already am,and keep it locked away as a registered firearm ?
I thought even collector's firearms still have to properly secured and definitely not on display. In most states you can't even display non-firing replica firearms, and antique firearms are firearms, regardless of whether they were ever registered.
Basically, it has be secured in such a way as to ensure no unauthorised person can access it.
It's why I didn't bother trying to bring my replica firearms across from WA.