S.M.L.E Sniper at Birmingham Arms Fair

[Beerhunter]

Re deacts - I'd love a bren, but with regards to buying them, it does seem a bit pointless as I usually feel - what would I do with it?

I do understand. Due to amount of room it takes up (in its box), my Bren may well have gone years ago but I found a use for it, "dressing" the HBSA tent at NRA Open Days and similar events.

[peregrinvs]

Mmmmmmmmmm........ just looked on that site Peregrine. The man with the SA80 A2 seems to be telling a few porky pies if I'm not mistaken. Especially as I see the real McCoy most days........ hundreds of em!

On the subject of Melton Mowbray's, check out these two 'L4' Brens...

Second hand Bren Gun L4 LMG 7.62mmx51 NATO Machine Gun for sale | GunStar.


Used Bren Gun L4 LMG 7.62 mm Machine Gun for sale | GunStar.

[Brian Dick]

A deact with an intact receiver in the USA would bring 10 years and a $10,000 fine if caught. US import law requires that the receiver be torch cut in three places with 1/4" of metal removed per cut. I was at an air and ground show several years ago in Columbia, SC, (Owen Field), and a guy had a lovely Ferret with a nice deact Lithgow Bren Mk.2 sitting on the hood. Some military vehicle collectors from Florida who were also legal MG collectors were freaking out about it. He told them it was thrown in on the Ferret deal in the UK and they just stowed it in the vehicle and shipped it over. Needless to say, after they were done scaring the poor guy to death, he promptly made it disappear! It was a nice gun too done to the older British deact specification.

[Peter Laidler]

Hey Brian, maybe that's the answer to the man on the Bren forum, wanting to import a deact Bren to Australia. Just buy a Ferrett in the UK, sling a Bren into the stowage bin and there it is, Australia in a month with the Bren.............. easy!

[Brian Dick]

But I reckon it's a crap shoot whether or not the Customs boys look inside! The inspectors in Charleston certainly didn't!!

[Norton1]

It's really simple here to own a legal full automatic weapon so I don't really want to think about why someone would want to bring one in with all the jail and fines that could happen. It's also legal, with the correct permit, to take a demil and revive it and keep it for yourself to shoot. It is basically a manufacturer's license for the individual. I see them all of the time. Usually friends so have shot most of them.

It is too bad you folks in England and Oz can't own weapons more easily. Sad sad sad -

So how do you get to keep the SMLE's and shoot them? Or do you?

Be well,
Steve

[Roger Payne]

......Hey Norton 1. It might not be great here in the UK but it could be worse.....

ATB

[bigduke6]

......Hey Norton 1. It might not be great here in the UK but it could be worse.....

ATB

That chair looks a bit worn?

[Norton1]

I didn't mean to imply that it is a bad place to be. I spent a bit of time in Australia and loved it there! I just meant that here we really do scrap about our gun rights. And for me it would be a deal breaker as to whether or not I could own, and shoot, firearms when I wanted to.

In Oz my Cobber's son-in-law shoots Roos for extra money and has a real nice bolt gun. I could live with that one. That's why I was wondering whether you could even own weapons that fired over there. And then of course have a place you could go most anytime you wanted and shoot them.

Be well
Steve

[Brian Dick]

I fear that unless we get a big time regime change here in November, we'll all be sitting in the same boat. The current regime has BIG plans for we folks in the firearms trade and gun owners in general. So much for the so called "free" western world.