What desk photos do you have?

[limpetmine]

The type of de-milled rifles and machine guns I saw in Normandy in 2004 are quite illegal in the US of A. I was speaking to a British reenactor about his kit, and he was quite willing to break it down for me (I've got pics somewhere). He was a policeman, former military. The extent of the demil on the rifle was a cut on the inside of the barrel, and a plug in the chamber. On this side of the pond, a Bren or Vickers would need the guts removed, and denial plates welded in place, with no means to change the barrel or chamber a round. Others may chime in, but this is what I've seen around, and sold from IMA. Some Stens are sold with solid aluminum receivers. Merely cutting a chunk out of a receiver does not render it "not a machine gun" in the eyes of the ATF, if it is "readily restorable" what ever that means. Bren receivers here must be cut into three pieces with 1/4" flame cuts.
Happy New Year to you and yours as well,
/limpetmine

Someone asked in passing about the little red X on the magazine. This was a Miscellaneous Instruction requirement for certain magazines used on DP guns. Many of these magazines unofficially had the rear of the platform chamfered off to override the holding open device during training. While this was really an unofficial modification and not strictly allowed, it became by default, the norm and an 'acceptable' unauthorised modification! But in order that these 'training' magazines were imediately identifiable, it was decreed that '....be so marked with a suitable sized and distinct red letter 'X' on both sides'.

Now you know if you ever see such a beast

Just as a matter of interest, what's the lawful status of a dewat/deactivated Bren in the US and Canada. And just how lawful would a UK spec deact be? I often wondered.................

All have a merry Christmas