My WW2 deact gun collection
Article about: As my wife bought me TWO guns this Christmas (an SVT-40 and a Mosin Nagant carbine - I have obviously been a good boy) I now have sixteen and feel that this can be called a collection in its
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Does it for me, I love guns
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You have a fine collection of iconic weapons there-here in Australia although you can collect live pistols and bolt action rifles, you can't have SMGs, auto rifles or machine guns and now these can't be brought into the country even if deactivated-means that whatever is here just skyrockets in value-you're fortunate you can still get any of the weapons you want at a reasonable price.
PS Very unlikely the Chassepot saw any use after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71-just too old and outdated-some of the following Gras M1871 rifles did see reserve/training use in WW1 and even in 1939-40 but these had been rebarrelled for the 8mm Lebel round. Black powder just didn't cut it anymore.
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The Chassepot found its way into my collection via my father - he brought it back from 'somewhere' in the 1960's / 70's, he spent a lot of time in the Middle East so I assume it came from somewhere out there.
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Mr Grimebox, lovely weapons collection - very similar to mine (great minds think alike lol) cheers Terry
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Nice collection Grimebox, your Mosin Nagant rifle should dry fire. The deac rules in the UK can be split into 2 types as you know, Old spec is pre Oct 95 and New Spec is post Oct 95. All types of guns were affected but some more than others, manually operated rifles had minor spec changes which didn't really affect the dry functioning, revolvers and semi pistols had similar minor changes, LMGs, MMGs, HMGs had extra small things carried out like removing locking shoulders etc. The biggest changes were to SMGs and Semi auto rifles (Bipod mounted rifles remained classed as LMGs) which were welded up and could not be dry fired.
Did you know your Bren has a Butt Mk4 from the Bren Mk3 fitted? It would have had a Butt Mk3 for Bren Mk2 fitted originally.
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Many thanks for the clarification on the deact specs. I was aware that the Bren didn't have the correct butt (but didn't know which one). The Bren is made by Inglis, is there any reason why it has a different butt and do you think I should look for a Mk3 butt?
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Nice collection and variety,Love the Thompson !
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Great collection. I would love to own some of the examples you have here but as Lithgow said, here in Australia its just not going to happen. Great Iconic weapons there.
Jason
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