Quote Originally Posted by Frederick303 View Post
2) Those who kind of envied the UKicon model where you could get the real arm, complete in its original form, simply modified so it could not fire. So it is possible in the UK to get a model 1921 Thompsons for a reasonable price, an item that even if you went through the paperwork required would cost 30,000 dollars, hence beyond almost all US chaps.
De-act 1921 in the UK, never a hope of that I'm afraid, and if one had turned up from somewhere, it certainly wouldn't have been a reasonable price...
As already mentioned, new regs means certainly not 'simply modified'....heavily butchered is more accurate.

Quote Originally Posted by Frederick303 View Post
Sort of curious what folks across the pond think. For the most part self loading reproductions of submachine guns are not popular in the US as they pretty much all suck and lose something integral to the design either the pistol form or long barrel rifle form. Would UK folks prefer to have the shooting copies if they had to give up the real deactivated guns.
Given we aren't even allowed to have any centre-fire full-bore semi-auto rifles, let alone semi-auto versions of smgs's, I have no doubt in saying every one of us here would exchange a de-act paperweight for a firing copy in semi-auto