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    US GI full autos.

    I will dump all my SMGs, LMGs and HMGs in this thread. They are all fully functional, but I am NOT allowed to shoot them! In my neck of the wood you are allowed to own full auto guns, but only on a collectors permit, shooting them is a big no go.

    Let's get started with an M1icon Thompson.

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    Nice M1... I had an M1 (not M1A1icon) many years ago...removable firing pin and all...
    Regards, Jim

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    This one is an M1 that was changed into an M1A1icon.





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    Nice, looks like the 1919 sat out for a while...
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    So you can own the car, but you can't drive it?
    You can cook the food, but you can't eat it?
    I think Spain and Argentinaicon have similar laws. Painful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonnyc View Post
    I think Spain and Argentinaicon have similar laws.
    We have similar laws too...on our FA and converted auto.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jonnyc View Post
    So you can own the car, but you can't drive it?
    You can cook the food, but you can't eat it?
    I think Spain and Argentinaicon have similar laws. Painful.
    Maybe so, but everything in life is about compromises....
    In the US I could not have afforded even 5 % of my collection.

    The 1919A4 had set me back 3000$, tripod included. My M1A1icon 800$...and so on.

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    One friend of mine had all 4 of the main variants at one point.

    He never let me shoot his 1921A with the "C" drum because someone had dropped it at a previous shoot and it was expensive to remove the dent.

    ..but....a 1921A with an "L" drum puts a big smile on your face... ;-)


    If you are able to find a 1921 or 1928 lower, you can adapt your M1icon for drums (I don't remember if you have to notch the front of the mag well or not?).
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    My BAR 1918 A2, made by New Englandicon Small Arms Corporation.






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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Enfield View Post
    If you are able to find a 1921 or 1928 lower, you can adapt your M1icon for drums
    Not quite, you find a repro drum and have the spine from a box mag spotted to the back. Then it just slides up in place. No need to refit uppers and lowers...

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    My BAR 1918 A2
    I had three of those through time, a Royal Typewriter 1918A2, then a Marlin Rockwell 1918 with the walnut stock and no over strikes, finally a NESA like yours...forget where my number fell in relation to yours...
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