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Originally Posted by vienna
Not just in WWII; I knew a few guys who brought back or had shipped back weapons from 'Nam in the 60s and 70s. A guy I knew as a friend of the family in about 1970-71 was a LRRP and had some very impressive souvenirs...
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Well you can fill out a war trophies form and if it is not a legal weapon if you have it demilitarized you can keep it so an AK or from Vietnam most likely a type 56 if you had the firing pin removed and welded over and a rod in part of the barrel you can keep it.Now an SKS or Type 56(SKS they used the same number for both the AKM and the SKS in China) that is a semi auto 10 round magazine so that gun you could keep as is.If he brought back a working type 56 he did not do it legally. If it is not a type 56 then it most likely is not from Vietnam as 85~90% of the NVAs small arms where from China the advanced gear came from the USSR.
My father was also a LRRP 67-68,68-69 but he was never into the war trophy thing he was more a photography man and has easily 2 or 3 thousand pictures many taken during operations and they did find lots of arms caches.