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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 454417, member: 4626"]Nope, they are not... but the issue under discussion isn't whether or not you can spend them (not that any sane person would want to anyway lol...) but whether or not you can legally <i>own</i> them. As far as I know, although the Treasury has never confiscated any, they also have not explicitly stated they are legal to own. Pattern collectors have often pressed the Treasury to make a more firm declaration on the issue, so as not to have to worry that their patterns may be confiscated somewhere down the road, but the most they could get out of the Treasury was noncomittal responses to the effect of "if we haven't declared them illegal, they are legal" which isn't especially illuminating. But possesion being 9/10 of the law and such, if you own one, and it's not the result of a known theft of Treasury property, your patterns are probably 99.9999% safe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 454417, member: 4626"]Nope, they are not... but the issue under discussion isn't whether or not you can spend them (not that any sane person would want to anyway lol...) but whether or not you can legally [I]own[/I] them. As far as I know, although the Treasury has never confiscated any, they also have not explicitly stated they are legal to own. Pattern collectors have often pressed the Treasury to make a more firm declaration on the issue, so as not to have to worry that their patterns may be confiscated somewhere down the road, but the most they could get out of the Treasury was noncomittal responses to the effect of "if we haven't declared them illegal, they are legal" which isn't especially illuminating. But possesion being 9/10 of the law and such, if you own one, and it's not the result of a known theft of Treasury property, your patterns are probably 99.9999% safe.[/QUOTE]
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