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Importing WWII decommisioned Thompson?

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  • 17-05-2005 8:30am
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    bubonicus
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭


    Hi like the forum on shooting. I have down some target shooting abroad(kind of).

    But I have a question.
    What are the legal requirements for bringing a decommisioned WWII Thompson machine gun into the country from France?

    I want to mount it on my wall over a used target sheet I brought home from Texas after letting off 100 rounds into it with a Thompson.

    Cheers,
    Al.


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    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Well, I've seen a guy display his deactivated WW2 era MG-34 (or MG-42?) and Bren machine guns here in Ireland, so I suppose its possible.

    I'm sure someone who has detailed knowledge of the legal hoops to be jumped through to acquire such a thing will come along shortly, but the 'Thompson gun' has as coloured a history here as the 'Armalite', so I'd be afraid that more subjective criteria than just the letter of the law may be brought to bear on your endeavours. :(

    Check out the lyrics of Off To Dublin In The Green to see what I mean.


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    chem
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    Hi Al

    deactivated firearms are covered in the fiearms and offencive weapons act. you can have them but by right your local super has to know you have it and grant you a permit. He can attach what ever rules and regs he likes as to storage and can revoke the permit at any time.

    I was trying to collect de-acts for awhile, but the DOJ didnt want to really know about the import end of things. I was told that if you could not get a licence for it here, then i could not be taken into the country :mad:

    They also wanted anything i wanted to import to be sent for ballistic testing :o how ever they were going to do that ? barrels have an iron welded the lenght of the barrel!!!

    I do know alot of people who just ordered them and got them in the post without any problems. but i would not like to go that way and risk loseing my firearms certs or upsetting my local super ;)

    Just out of interest, where in france were you getting it?


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    bubonicus
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭bubonicus


    thanks for the info. Not sure if I'll bother now. seems like too much grief.

    There are army surplus shops all over Normandy. When I was over there last year doing the bunker tour of france I saw some in St. Marie Eglise. ranging from 400 to 600 euros. But I think it would look cool mounted.


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