Importing cottage weapons

It looks like most you posted are NFA, such as the grenade launchers, suppressors, and submachineguns, which at this time would be literally impossible for any civilian to import for ownership. I imagine some might be disabled and gifted to a museum who was interested, but not very likely, I would think, very low interest for such crude devices. Take pictures and leave them to be destroyed by whatever government owns the land they sit on.

pairof44sp said:

Does anyone know anything of the possibilities for, and unique impediments to, importing homemade firearms?

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While any gun dealer can do the "occasional" import of a firearm, few do because of unfamiliarity with the ATF and Customs paperwork required. There is also the matter of customs brokers and marking the firearm with the required information. You would be best served by a licensed importer.

I've used Simpsons https://simpsonltd.com/firearm-imports/ and my customer was very pleased with their discrete importers marks.
It ain't cheap. Minimum importer fee is $200, then you have shipping cost, broker fees, customs fees.............you are looking at several hundred dollars for just one gun. To an importer its the same paperwork and headache for one gun as it is one thousand guns.

But those don't appear to be Title I firearms, which makes transferring to anyone who is not a government agency or SOT problematic. Foreign made NFA firearms cannot be imported and transferred on a Form 4 to a nonlicensee. To LE/Gov/Mil they can.

If they are machine guns, well, the Registry closed in 1986. Anything manufactured after that is only transferrable to mil/LE/FFL/SOT.

Doing it thru a museum and trust, maybe?

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Trust, corp, individual, LLC makes no difference.

Be willing to bet the first hurdle would be in getting an export license.
After that, you'd be up against all the importation rules within the US.
If any are Title I, a person could contact Polaris Worldwide Logistics, who are in the import/export biz.

I've heard that runs to some dollars for the service, so you do want to get a batch of things to distribute the cost. Mind, I've also heard you really only want to go to this level of effort for firearms over a grand or two in price.

And, after all that effort, all you'd have would be some sort of zip gun.