Virginia Police to Donate Seized STG44 to USN Museum

[Kirk Freeman]

Virginia police to donate seized Stg44 to United State Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington D.C.

This one looks fairly rough. I have had better examples through my office.

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[indiucky]

I hope they can pull it off....My buddy was a Colonel at Fort Knox when a lady brought in an MP 44 her husband had brought back from the war...It wasn't registered and it took quite a bit of pull to get it in the Patton Museum...Had to fill the barrel with lead...He got them (ATF) to agree to not have to cut the receiver by telling them that the weapon could be used for training soldiers I.E. what kind of old weapons they may encounter in less wealthy countries....

 

[Kutnupe14]

The should have rendered it inoperable and returned it to someone more responsible in the criminal's family. I'd hate to lose something like that from my family's history.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

The should have rendered it inoperable and returned it to someone more responsible in the criminal's family. I'd hate to lose something like that from my family's history.

"Rendered it inoperable"? No such thing. You want the cops to set him up for a federal felony? Not tracking.

 

[Methane Herder]

Once a machine gun always a machine gun. "Cough cough Browning G series FAL cough cough". Hard and fast rule for the BATFE.
MH

 

[Fallschirmjaeger]

Once a machine gun always a machine gun. "Cough cough Browning G series FAL cough cough". Hard and fast rule for the BATFE.
MH

I'm just glad that they aren't going straight to the "this evil device must be destroyed immediately!" mentality that is all too familiar these days.

 

[Thor]

So, Eugene McGee was/is an idiot. What a way to lose a family heirloom.

 

[88E30M50]

This is the line that caught my eye:

a police spokesman, explained that normally guns seized as evidence cannot be returned to their owners and are ground up in a metalshredder and recycled.

I sure hope that they are not shredding stolen property if it was used in a crime. Shredding any gun for that reason is bad enough but if one of my guns was stolen and ended up being shredded after it was found at a crime scene, I'd be royally ticked off. Shredding guns is just cruel.