That would be me. I've been on the hunt for a nice JSAR for a while now and when I saw the listing pop up, for all the reasons you all mentioned, red flags were raised right away. That said, Gunbroker can't force me to send money to anyone, so the possible outcomes were:
It's an obvious scam and I don't pay.
It's not a scam but the seller can't provide sufficient proof of legitimacy and I walk anyways, maybe take a little bad feedback.
The seller turns out to be legitimate and I get what I think is a nice deal on a good looking rifle.
I'm very happy to report that this was the 3rd outcome. Seller is a great individual, just a collector in a unique circumstance. Anyways, got the rifle in hand finally last week and it's overall in very nice condition. I'll share some more photos and parts details later. The parkerizing is great, the bore is nice and shiny, everything seems to be there and functioning. The only flaws besides normal handling marks in the wood are two small patch repairs in the stock on the right side, a small split inside the right hand inletting around the fire control box and 2 small splits around the toe end of the butt. I believe the recoil spring plug in the back end of the stock is also a replacement as well since it takes a 1/2 hex wrench instead of a flat head driver.
Otherwise, it's great. Once I got it in, I stripped it down fully to nuts and bolts, ultrasonic cleaned all the metal and reoiled/greased, put a little BLO on the stock and then reassembled. Will put some M2 ball through it shortly to see how she runs. Couldn't be happier with how it ended up. I've been a collector of early Armalite/Colt AR-10's and AR-15's, so it seemed only natural to have a 1941 Johnson given how much of the design was incorporated by Stoner, but I think I've started to catch the bug for JSARs now too.
