"If your title 1 firearm has already been engraved by a Manufacturer, e.g. KRISS USA, with their information, a serial number, model, and a caliber, then the information from the engraving will be used in Box 4 and is considered to be the “Original Manufacturer” on the ATF Form 1 and the “Manufacturer” on the ATF 5320.23."
Cite of the regulations, please! This is the the correct procedure for a "reactivation" but, in my experience not for a Form 1 manufacture.
A form 1 application IS an application to "manufacture" (make) a firearm by the person applying, and who is applying to be the "manufacturer". That's why it is taxed and why the receiver/controlled part MUST be marked by him because he is "making" a "NEw" firearm from non-gun parts and must be listed as the "manufacturer" in that box on the F1.
In the 1980's, there was no official designation of what parts constituted the "controlled" parts of a M60 receiver. The "combination of parts" evolved in later years as it did with other MGs. Registering a trunnion was one way, registering the channel was another way, etc, etc. Many other MGs had the same problem and often only one part was registered because there was no guidance or regulation by ATF. Look at HK's for some confusion from those years. ATF NEVER inspected the hardware so they had no idea of what parts were being registered so those of us on the street did what we thought would work. ATF just processed paperwork, NOT hardware. They never saw it.
The requirement for a Form 1 "making" of an MG receiver was basically the the same it is today: the controlled part HAD to be destroyed, first, rendering it a non-gun so the parts were no longer controlled as a firearm and could be made into a "new" firearm.
The "one cut" destruction back then was done in all sorts of ways, including NOT destroying the receiver. That's where so many "C+R" MGs come from that were never cut, but F2 registered as "reactivations" by CII's and sold as "original, factory" guns. They continue to be revealed by ATF currently as NOT C+R by the ATF vetters who research the NFRTR for DATE/FORM of original registration. Same for individuals F1 making and registering an MG receiver, but the "receiver" was never cut, just MARKED with his ID.
A Form 1 BREN had the factory ID on it but as a From 1 "making", it was REQUIRED" to also have the Form 1 applicants name, address, etc on the gun. MARKING is the indication of having been "manufactured" S a "new" firearm from a "non-gun" by the F1 applicant
ATF regards a "reactivation" of a registered DEWAT as "manufacturing" requiring the person or FFL doing the work to MARK it with his ID. AND, in this case the ID of the factory manufacturer on the F5 does not change on the F1 application. The original factory ID remains on the approved F1 "registration" after the MG is reactivated.
The registration of the M60 trunnion as fhe "MG" is not at all unusual for the period. The maker did the correct thing and MARKED the trunnion with his ID for a reman. His ID should be on the form as manufacturer as it is on the trunnion of the gun. The SACO gun did not exist any more when the trunnion was registered. The trunnion was the controlled part, but not yet part of a "new firearm".
A cut and welded 1917 Westinghouse marked F1 registered BMG "new" sideplate will have the name of the F1 applicant on the paperwork and the sideplate since the 1917 Westinghouse BMG no longer existed as an MG once the plate had been cut. A properly registered controlled part can be made into a "new" MG at any time.
The fact that it has been transferred only once is irrelevant. Seeing a copy of the original registration would be extremely interesting and helpful. Maybe something else is going on?
The protocols of today cannot be invoked to explain/excuse/%defend/den the protocols from forty years ago and longer. I bought my first registered MG, MG34, in 1970 and been involved as an FFL of one sort or another since the middle 1970's, and am still 07/02, so went through all this stuff with my eyes open as much as possible for all those years.
All I got FWIW. Have at it!
