A real man's machine gun

**riffer** · 29th July 2004, 11:05

Interesting site discovered while bored:

http://198.144.2.125/MG42/mg42.htm

For those of you for whom a regular machine gun just isn't enough...

the WWII German MG-42

Love the sound when the page starts up!!

**jrandom** · 29th July 2004, 11:08

Hoooooo yus.

If I had the time and money to collect, an MG42 would be at the top of my drool list.

**Racey Rider** · 29th July 2004, 11:14

Does she have a name Spank?
Nice smile

**vifferman** · 29th July 2004, 11:40

Originally Posted by crash

If only I had a C category licence.

Is that like a gun-collector's licence? Our MD is a gun collector, and has all sorts of stuff, including an Oerlikon (sp?), which he has only 3 rounds for, and because they take ages to reload, he hasn't fired it often.

**riffer** · 29th July 2004, 12:09

Originally Posted by Racey Rider

Does she have a name Spank?
Nice smile

Hmmm. How about this:

http://www.hunt-naked-women.com/

**SpankMe** · 29th July 2004, 13:28

Originally Posted by Racey Rider

Does she have a name Spank?
Nice smile

Sydney Moon

**jrandom** · 29th July 2004, 13:55

Originally Posted by firestormer

Is that like a gun-collector's licence?

Yup. A-class is 'sporting guns' - rifles and shotguns, excluding those that come under E-class. B-class is handguns; you need to be an active member of a pistol-shooting club. C-class is collector, which lets you own just about anything. D-class is dealer. E-class is military-style semiautomatics for when you want to own and use semiautos with pistol-grip stocks, magazines of more than seven rounds capacity, etc.

The only way to own a fully-automatic firearm in NZ is via a C-class license.

**scumdog** · 29th July 2004, 15:16

Quote from jrandom:"The only way to own a fully-automatic firearm in NZ is via a C-class license."

'course that's based on the assumption that you want to fall within the guidlines for legal ownership?

**riffer** · 29th July 2004, 15:27

Originally Posted by scumdog

'course that's based on the assumption that you want to fall within the guidlines for legal ownership?

And what exactly is the penalty for illegal ownership of this type of weapon?

**FROSTY:Me** · 29th July 2004, 16:17

the penalty is simple--a stroll in front of a panel of your peers--in a bullseye suit

**geoffm** · 29th July 2004, 16:37

Originally Posted by jrandom

Yup. A-class is 'sporting guns' - rifles and shotguns, excluding those that come under E-class. B-class is handguns; you need to be an active member of a pistol-shooting club. C-class is collector, which lets you own just about anything. D-class is dealer. E-class is military-style semiautomatics for when you want to own and use semiautos with pistol-grip stocks, magazines of more than seven rounds capacity, etc.

The only way to own a fully-automatic firearm in NZ is via a C-class license.

Legally anyway. Didn't stop Jorgenson and some mates using an (illegally owned) Reisling SMG in Basset Road all those years ago...
C class means you can own them (with police approval and various fine print), but aren't allowed to shoot them (buggerit)
BTW, prior to 1920, if you could afford to buy one and feed it, you could have whatever pistols or machineguns you wanted. The law was changed (in the UK and we followed) because of fears of a Bolshiviek uprising, as per Russia, as there were a lot of well pissed off ex-servicemen after WW1. Crime has nothing to do with it.
Geoff.

**Motu** · 29th July 2004, 17:08

An engineering company up the road here sometimes makes period guns for the movie industry,some working,some not.I was up there last year and they had a gattling gun they had built and were having a bit of trouble getting it running.I thought it looked kinda usefull....

**spudchucka** · 29th July 2004, 19:13

Originally Posted by celticno6

And what exactly is the penalty for illegal ownership of this type of weapon?

Target practice!

**Motu** · 29th July 2004, 20:28

Just being talking to one of the guys about the gattling gun,they are playing around with the belt feed still,they have a firing alley in the workshop! Apparently it fires .22s and seeing as it's made up of single barrels it's not classed as a machine gun,they aim to sell them - $10,000 each.