As this matter appears to be settled, I thought I would share a little recent adventure.
About a month or so ago I went to a local gun auction. Bulk of the guns were from a large estate. One of the items that caught my eye was a Czech D-Technik VZ-61 chambered in .32 acp. Came with three magazines and a holster and mag pouch. I ended up getting it for a decent price. It then sat in my safe for a while and I decided it was too much of a range toy, there were other things I wanted, and I would thus sell it on Ingo - hopefully recouping my purchase price. Fairly quickly I received an offer for a trade and we met up on a Saturday. Other INGOer was an FFL so when we traded, I did a 4473 and he entered the VZ into his books.
Needless to say he was giddy about firing the thing and planned to do so that day. A few hours later, the dealer called to inform me the pistol was capable of full auto fire. He sent me a video which was very cool except for the circumstances. If he wants to out himself here he may, I just want to add that he was extremely cool about the whole thing. Apparently the selector on the VZ-61 pistol, instead of "safe" and "semi-auto fire", was now "semi-auto fire" and "SQUIRT!"
Doing the Right Thing (as INGO folks do), the dealer immediately contacted the Sheriff who took possession of the firearm pending their transferring it to the ATF. I then contacted the auction company, informing them of the situation. Less than a week later, the FFL I traded it to got a call from the ATF. They stated they were very concerned about it but after about a half hour on the phone, Agent concluded that we did everything right and an agent will eventually pickup the gun from the sheriffs department and have it destroyed. We are both in the clear and so is the auction company. He added if we were both happy financially then we probably won't be hearing from them again on this matter.
So I sent a cash payment for the gun I received in trade to the dealer, the auction company issued me a refund for the purchase, transfer fee, etc. and at least we have a cool story to tell.
About a month or so ago I went to a local gun auction. Bulk of the guns were from a large estate. One of the items that caught my eye was a Czech D-Technik VZ-61 chambered in .32 acp. Came with three magazines and a holster and mag pouch. I ended up getting it for a decent price. It then sat in my safe for a while and I decided it was too much of a range toy, there were other things I wanted, and I would thus sell it on Ingo - hopefully recouping my purchase price. Fairly quickly I received an offer for a trade and we met up on a Saturday. Other INGOer was an FFL so when we traded, I did a 4473 and he entered the VZ into his books.
Needless to say he was giddy about firing the thing and planned to do so that day. A few hours later, the dealer called to inform me the pistol was capable of full auto fire. He sent me a video which was very cool except for the circumstances. If he wants to out himself here he may, I just want to add that he was extremely cool about the whole thing. Apparently the selector on the VZ-61 pistol, instead of "safe" and "semi-auto fire", was now "semi-auto fire" and "SQUIRT!"
Doing the Right Thing (as INGO folks do), the dealer immediately contacted the Sheriff who took possession of the firearm pending their transferring it to the ATF. I then contacted the auction company, informing them of the situation. Less than a week later, the FFL I traded it to got a call from the ATF. They stated they were very concerned about it but after about a half hour on the phone, Agent concluded that we did everything right and an agent will eventually pickup the gun from the sheriffs department and have it destroyed. We are both in the clear and so is the auction company. He added if we were both happy financially then we probably won't be hearing from them again on this matter.
So I sent a cash payment for the gun I received in trade to the dealer, the auction company issued me a refund for the purchase, transfer fee, etc. and at least we have a cool story to tell.
