Re: Interesting video on prop guns used in Where Eagles Dare (1968)

On 2024-12-16 1:47 AM, Ed Stasiak wrote:

 Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> posted:
 

Mark Felton, a respected British historian and gun owner, has released a
video about a machine gun that was turned in to British police during a
gun amnesty in 2017. At the time, the owner said it was the MP40 machine
gun used by Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare (1968).

 Turns out it was a post-war Japanese made toy guy... that the British cops still destroyed...

I respected the fact that they initially sent it to a firearms museum and only destroyed it after the expert there determined that it wasn't of any historic interest.
I certainly don't endorse the wholesale disarming of the population though: that seems to make a government tyranny much more possible and harder to end.
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Rhino