11-12-2013, 11:48 AM
Good eye Six.
I posted this one to add to the confusion of what is real and what is fake. This one was actually a trick question. This old German grease gun is actually a real toy. What you ask, real toy? Yes a real toy. This was a actual firearm and then someone, for the life of me I don't know why they would do this to this piece of history, but anyway it was a real firearm that someone decommissioned. That means they took a firing gun and altered it so it no longer would fire. They leaded the barrel, removed the springs and follower from the magazine, cut the springs in the receiver so that the bolt would still travel but without enough force to fire and altered the firing pin and bolt. So now what once was used in a world war is now a toy.
Its not bad enough that someone altered this piece of history, but now we have a multi fold issue. One is we have to worry about a youngin pulling this on someone and getting shot because of it. Second we have to worry that ANYONE, even a felon, can own this "toy" now. No permits, no background checks, no federal forms to fill out, no ID's needed. Third is that someone that is good with firearms can actually reverse the alterations and once again make this a full auto killing machine.
Here is a link to a short video of the MP38 being fired.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEox_8G7NXw
I posted this one to add to the confusion of what is real and what is fake. This one was actually a trick question. This old German grease gun is actually a real toy. What you ask, real toy? Yes a real toy. This was a actual firearm and then someone, for the life of me I don't know why they would do this to this piece of history, but anyway it was a real firearm that someone decommissioned. That means they took a firing gun and altered it so it no longer would fire. They leaded the barrel, removed the springs and follower from the magazine, cut the springs in the receiver so that the bolt would still travel but without enough force to fire and altered the firing pin and bolt. So now what once was used in a world war is now a toy.
Its not bad enough that someone altered this piece of history, but now we have a multi fold issue. One is we have to worry about a youngin pulling this on someone and getting shot because of it. Second we have to worry that ANYONE, even a felon, can own this "toy" now. No permits, no background checks, no federal forms to fill out, no ID's needed. Third is that someone that is good with firearms can actually reverse the alterations and once again make this a full auto killing machine.
Here is a link to a short video of the MP38 being fired.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEox_8G7NXw