St. Louis decommissioned its Thompson submachine guns about 60 years ago. [More]Lemme know when you guys want to sell one that works.
That said, it's preferable to see them "giving back to the community" instead of scrapping them, like totalitarian vandals destroying public property with impunity do.
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There is a fly in the ointment. The National Firearms Act (NFA) enacted on June 26, 1934, created a list of all machineguns. Only those listed by serial number are allowed to be transferred. Those possessed by the Police were/are exempt from the listing when they were created and sold to the St. Louis police. If anyone submits paperwork to the ATF to transfer a machinegun that is not on the list, the machinegun is to be confiscated by the ATF without compensation. And, even though they are old, they cannot be legally added to the list now because that option to add any machinegun closed in 1934 with the 'grace period' to register your machinegun.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't understand about this is I thought a decommissioned gun was a deactivated gun, meaning it was no longer "legally" a firearm. I guess it just means they were retired from active use.
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