[Aikibiker]

I am blatently stealing this from ProfGAB101 on the AR15.com forums.

Apparently if you fill out the proper forms and have them signed by the right person you can bring home a war trophy (even NFA items).

The forms are DD603 and DD603-1 Department of Defense Forms in AEFSS 4.7 (http://usamissa.amedd.army.mil/aefss/deptforms.asp?Category=1)

DD603 PDF e-Form (http://web1.whs.osd.mil/forms/DD0603.PDF)
DD603-1 PPDF e-Form (http://web1.whs.osd.mil/forms/DD0603-1.PDF)

Better Links
DD603 Form information (http://www.dior.whs.mil/icdhome/forminfo/FormInfoPage179.htm)
DD603-1 Form information (http://www.dior.whs.mil/icdhome/forminfo/FormInfoPage180.htm)

Apparently some enterprising soldiers are already using these.

Note: I haven't seen the actual form yet since I don't have a PDF viewer. Can anyone recomend a good free one?

[Wild Bill]

Try this link to Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

[Triad]

The "DD" means these are Department of Defense forms, right? Seems to me that it does no good for them to get DOD approval to bring them home if the ATFE won't allow them to register them in the NFA registry. Does ATFE make an exception for war trophys?

[Black92LX]

wow, at first i was thinking war trophy, and thought of hunting trophies. i got a picture of someone with a bunch of dead Iraqi's in the freezer of their basement. yes it is very early in the morning and i was knocked unconciouss while playing softball last night, so cut me some slack.

[cracked butt]

wow, at first i was thinking war trophy, and thought of hunting trophies. i got a picture of someone with a bunch of dead Iraqi's in the freezer of their basement.

Or one of them cool ear necklaces?:evil:

[willyjixx]

cool! is an RPG an NFA?

[mattd]

Well the launcher, I bet is just a firearm or maybe not even regulated at all, but the warheads are another story.

[telomerase]

Lots of Americans will get war trophies from Iraq over the next twenty years. Undoubtedly some of them will break BATF rules, but it won't matter after they explode near a dam, sports stadium, subway...

It's hard to pawn those ear necklaces, guys. They cost a lot more than their resale value. The 1,000+ Americans who've been wounded and killed in this undeclared war don't care about trophies anymore; let's not forget about them.

(wild-eyed rant over)

[BADSBSNF81]

Where did you get the figure of 1K + Americans killed/wounded?

[jetman]

PERSONALLY I would LOVE to have one of the many of Qusay's gold plated and engraved AK-47's he had in several crates.... and of course in one of the red velvet lined wooden glass display cases too... and to go along with the Gold plated Beretta 92's he had tons of too!

while I'm dreaming anyway!

[telomerase]

>Where did you get the figure of 1K + Americans killed/wounded?

The Pentagon, but it's low and out of date. The last official figure was given on July 9, when the Pentagon announced that 1,044 American soldiers had been injured in Iraq since March 20. Of course the death count is on the news every day, and it's now 280.

This is only American soldiers, of course (and doesn't count those in Afghanistan). 17 journalists have been killed, and assorted British, Danish, and other troops. If anyone knows of a good site for up-to-date info, please post.

[Chipperman]

Gold Plated AK's and MP5's :barf:

A waste of Gold and an Insult to fine weaponry.

[Hkmp5sd]

Rev. Rul. 69-309

2) The importation consists of rifles or shotguns or any combination thereof (excluding any firearm coming within the purview of the National Firearms Act and any firearms of military surplus origin) not to exceed a total of three, and not more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition for rifles and shotguns (excluding tracer or incendiary ammunition) when those firearms or ammunition are on the person of a returning member of the U.S. Armed Forces or with his baggage or effects, whether accompanied or unaccompanied (but not mailed unless they are included in unaccompanied baggage or effects which are officially shipped through the mails by a Transportation Officer of the U.S. Armed Forces incident to a permanent change of duty station);

http://www.atf.treas.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/rulings.htm

[BADSBSNF81]

Notice how it didn't mention handguns? Big change from what it used to be

[Lennyjoe]

Got a couple of T-72 tanks here at my base from the 1st Iraq war in front of a couple of squadrons.

:what:

[mattd]

Are the tops blew off? I feel kinda sorry for the Iraqi Army.