Are 'inline' muzzle loaders subject to the US NFA?

[LAR-15]

Does this definition exempt them:

g) Antique firearm
The term “antique firearm” means any firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.


Thanks

 

[mp510]

Pretty good question, in fact, I really can't give you an asnwer

I do know, that I have bought Inline muzzleloaders (#11 and 209) without having to do any paperwork. However, if the inline muzzle loader is made from a firearm receiver (ie SKS, Mauser, Encore). http://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearmstech/072205antiquefirearm.pdf

Are you sure you mean NFA, not GCA 68?

 

[spooney]

Inline muzzleloaders are still muzzleloaders and as such are not defined as "firearms" by the BATF.

 

[rdbrowning]

"or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition "

A muzzle loader doesn't use "fixed ammunition"

 

[mp510]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/modern_muzzleloading_v_magaw2.txt

Modern Muzzleloading INC v Magaw

This should answer most of the questions

 

[beerslurpy]

I remember you from before. Antique explosive DDs are not exempted because the restriction is upon the "bomb" that the launcher propels through the antique mechanism. A muzzleloading M79 isnt a DD (I beleive), but every explosive round for it is.

 

[LAR-15]

Thanks for the link mp510!

It looks like in 1998 and prior 'inlines' were indeed subject to the GCA of 1968 but Congress has since exempted them.

And so they would be subject to the NFA of 1968 since that definition hasn't changed.

Congress exempted them from the GCA but not the NFA.