Do you need a special tax stamp for a cruise missile?
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dogtown tom
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Wolf?
I'll bet it's lacquer coated.
I'll bet it's lacquer coated.
shotgunjoel
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No, it says that it's inert (no boom stuff). It's legal just like those dummy grenades at the surplus store.
bushmaster1313
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Not sure why the boom stuff matters.
Machine guns need a stamp even if unloaded.
LeonCarr
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Those look like door hinges on the aft fins.
kingpin008
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Think about it - when's the last time you saw a box of High Explosive in the sporting goods section of Wal-Mart or Dick's?
Machineguns can be loaded with the appropriate Boom Stuff WAY easier than missiles, etc can be. That means that you can return an unloaded Thompson to a ready, usable condition much easier than you can re-fill a cruise missile with high explosive. Without that high explosive, missiles, etc are just empty tubes.
I mean by your logic, all the pipe at Home Depot should come with a tax stamp, because it's an "unloaded" pipe bomb.
LHRGunslinger
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Nah the rear fins appear to be riveted to plates attached with big heavy welds.
TexasRifleman
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Theoretically no, you would not need a tax stamp for a cruise missile.
MG's need a stamp because the definition of MG has nothing to do with ammo. A missile does not meet the definition of a Destructive Device without a warhead.
Now, getting permission to fly it, that's another story
There is a law, though I can't remember where exactly, that says a citizen cannot own military hardware that is still in current inventory. Not sure if that applies to missiles but it does to aircraft and tanks.
There is one guy negotiating a purchase of 8 F-14 Tomcats for civilian ownership now that the military has retired that model. Last I heard the project was almost fully funded. There is at least one licensed and flying F4 and I heard one guy is almost done rebuilding an F16.
None of that falls under the NFA though, and neither would a cruise missile.
Poprivit
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If the missile was serial numbered and registered with the DoD, sorry! An old friend of mine had two SCUD B rockets, but - and this is important - no s/n on either rocket. They came into the US as "Teaching Aids" after 5,000,000 lbs of paperwork and much money. They were initially confiscated, but I've stood under both of them. Google: Pony Tracks Ranch - Jacques Littlefield. Utterly fascinating.
Dravur
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I like how the copy says there is a lot of interest in these...
and yet, no one bid on it..
Interesting.
and yet, no one bid on it..
Interesting.
SharpsDressedMan
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If it has multiple warheads, you need a stamp for each one of the warheads.
Shadow 7D
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Lets not forget the guy who bought a F16, or was it a F/A18 in assembly crates listed at auction as 'Misc. obsolete aircraft parts', I think there were 3 of them that made a complete aircraft, he bought them, and then the G discovered what he had (I think the DOD and ATF went after him) at the auctions the tried to get them back.
But since it was legal sale, and the 'military secrets' could, and were removed, he got the plane, some assembly required.
But since it was legal sale, and the 'military secrets' could, and were removed, he got the plane, some assembly required.
pabst_20
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hahah
Creature
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Early version of AS-10 ASM.
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W.E.G.
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I said...
IS... THERE... A PROBLEM?....
IS... THERE... A PROBLEM?....
oldbear
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I don't know if you need the Tax stamp to but a cruise missile, but you will need MILLIONS of $$$$$$$$$$$$.
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