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Deactivated Astra model 903 machine pistol

mondmond Member Posts: 6,458
edited August 28 in Ask the Experts
Do you guys have any intrest in this sort of thing, it got a lot of history, just a pitty it cannot talk ![:0] Deactivated Astra model 903 machine pistol with 20 round magazine, 3082 manufactured over 1000 brought by the Geman Waffen ss in 1940.

http://www.deactivated-guns.co.uk/detail/astra_903.htm

http://www.1896mauser.com/unceta.htm

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/astra-model-900/production-and-distribution.html
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No way of legally getting it into the States. As far as the feds are concerned if it was made originally as a selective fire firearm it is contraband.
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  • mondmond Member Posts: 6,458
    edited November -1
    Wow, that answers that. I wondered why i never saw such for sale or in collections your side of the pond. Best
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe that it can be imported into the US.

    However, you would first have to completely cut through the receiver in 3 specific places with a cutting torch. Our government's definition of "deactivated" is a little more strict than the British government's.

    Neal
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry mond but in this country that is still considered to be a live machine gun. I'm not sure what rules you folks have in the UK but here in this country if the receiver is still in one piece (or as Neal said: Less than three pieces) it is a firearm. Back in the late 1940s and up until the early 1960s the US used to allow deactivated machine guns, but that program ended and starting in 1968 anything that was once deactivated had to either be registered as a machine gun or destroyed. Most of the deactivated machine guns that were registered were eventually reactivated after the 1986 ban on the transfer of new production machine guns to private individuals.
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  • haroldchrismeyerharoldchrismeyer Member Posts: 2,213 ✭
    edited November -1
    Might even have to cut the barrel up these days, like they did on AK kits.
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  • mondmond Member Posts: 6,458
    edited November -1
    here deactivated usually men the barrel has a ball bearin pressed in, or the breach is plugged & welded. other wise they are fully operational. best mond
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  • Astra903Astra903 Member Posts: 2 ✭

    If you are willing to part with the magazine I am very interested in purchasing. Possibly other parts as well.

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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited August 28

    This thread is 14 yrs old. The OP was last active over 5 yrs ago, and no longer has an account here.

    You may post what you are looking for in the Want Ads sub forum. Good luck in your search.

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