LAST EDITED ON Apr-14-17 AT 10:54 PM (EDT)
 
>There is some dispute in online sources as to
>whether the Blue Sky carbines can legally be re-barrelled, since the
>"import mark" is on the barrel rather than the receiver where it
>should ordinarily be.

Update: I dug up an email address for the CMP pro shop and asked them about this. Their reply was that they can't replace an importer serial number if it appears on the barrel (as, for instance, with some CAI-imported Mosin-Nagants, whose original serial numbers contain Cyrillic letters and so are not acceptable under the 1968 Gun Control Act), but import-marked carbines that still go under their own receiver SNs (like my Blue Sky) are A-OK. I've asked for it to be put on the waiting list.

I'm not going to get the stock replaced or go for the full refinish, but "being a smoothbore" crosses the character/actual defect line...

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