Well as it is pre-1898 its probably safe. Buy yes, states all have their own issues.
If I still have it I will bring it, but I;d like to move it before then. The bore is shootable, when I got it the thing looked rusted out, we ran a wire brush through it and it looked good, fired several rounds that were rather accurate, hoppes boresnaked it and realized it was quite nice bore and rifling. At some point someone has used cosmoline on.in it and that accounted for what look like rust, just dried cosmo (which stains your hands like nothing else during cleaning)...ugh
Will try and get some pictures of it this week or weekend and post it since there is some interest. I may also be parting with an unconverted M1888 Commission Rifle from Styer.
Chris Fischer
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