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Marine with an M1928A1 Thompson SMG on Okinawa - April 1945 LIFE Magazine Archives - J R Eyerman Photographer WWP-PD

You will need to contact the website owner - Dalbert.

"The American gangster known as Machine Gun Kelly is shown handcuffed and shackled while being escorted from court under heavy guard in Memphis, Tennessee, 1933."

I was driving 8.5 hours mainly to visit with friends and attend the display show but if they settle on a location north of Dayton that ends my participation.

They had started having half the shows in Wilmington the other half in Cleveland.

Received an email from OGCA stating that the May display show and all future OGCA shows at the Roberts Centre have been cancelled due to a negligent discharge at the March meeting. Really a shame the Roberts Centre took this course of action but to me at least it is completely understandable. Hopefully OGCA will be able to find another venue in southwestern Ohio for future events.

Further down on page 18. "• Is the imported machinegun transferable? • It depends: – Was the machinegun lawfully imported on an ATF Form 6 and registered on an ATF Form 2 before May 19, 1986? – Was a Form 5 approved transferring and registering the machinegun to the government customer upon importation? – Upon approval of the Form 5, was the machinegun transferred to the government customer for official use? • If the answer to all three of these questions is “Yes,” then the machinegun is transferable."

ATF document dealing with this subject. Meat of the matter begins on page 16. https://www.atf.gov/docs/undefined/fair2024-nfa922opresentationnfad508cpdf/download This from page 21 - "Machineguns Imported for Government Use and Lawfully Possessed Prior to May 19, 1986 • NFA Division has experienced increased inquiries questioning whether a pre-86, imported machinegun is transferable. • ATF is aware that it has been reported that ATF has determined that “4,000” pre-86, imported machineguns are now transferable. • This is false."

You will need to print out the form Tom posted, complete it and mail it in with a check. You cannot join online through the website.

You would do better posting your question on 1919A4.com, many more Maxim owners there than here.

To put it in a little bit better context, the controversy occured not long after a white supremacist murdered two people at a Kroger store in Louisville. A Courier-Journal reporter did a story about KKK items being sold at the National Gun Day show and it escalated from there. Unfortunately the Courier-Journal story is now behind a paywall but the link below to another news source covers the opening salvo very well. "The display of the controversial items came just days after two black patrons were shot and killed in a Louisville grocery store in an attack that is being investigated as a hate crime. The gun show also occurred the same weekend that 11 people were killed in a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue in what is believed to be the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history." Kentucky fair officials to propose ban on ‘items of hate’ after Nazi, KKK memorabilia sold at gun show

OVMS was dragged into the dispute with the Expo management over the episode at the National Gun Day show which is why OVMS changed their rules. OVMS came very close to losing the Expo as their venue for SOS.

I have been going for over twenty years, it is great show for networking even if you do not buy anything. Met a lot of collectors at that show who have helped me find hard to find items over the years.

There is always a large number of vintage firearms at SOS. Modern firearms you can find at the National Gun Day show at the other end of the building.

Will be there with Folke and Reidar, our tables are on C row, same as in past years.

The only thing I attach to the 4473 is a copy of the FFL if one is involved in a transfer, mainly do this just to keep up with it.

Thanks. Credit goes to a good friend that works at ATF who said he found that "hiding in plain sight" on their website.

Begins on page 16 - FAIR 2024 - NFA 922(o) Presentation (NFAD)

May as well join in.

Have not heard from him in some time, I do miss his posts.

Found this photo today and thought it might be appropriate to add here. 17 year-old Cecil Appleby from Queen Mary's School in Walsall learns to handle a Thompson SMG during a visit to a Junior Leaders school in the UK - January 8, 1942 IWM - Tanner (Lt) Photographer IWM H 16501 WWP-PD

Possibly from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/American-Thunder-Military-Thompson-Machine/dp/0982391870/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UH7G0T2TISO2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.0VM1x71UIU7QT1KoHfyJWh2Rdtehw5uRVT6cCpev8baGRJYFo-TMG_MTo1xu3bb5vAMBrOuyWQXb1zsu97x0i7OVhlAY73B1fKxDEJOtGS2O-45qk5qZ_wg_YBocRZOmeRAYvmT-awoaaYtHvb6UcQ.DmMGfvHMfb_MndXFsnFRcq5gNABGryLQ8wSInzBZkGk&dib_tag=se&keywords=american+thunder+military+thompson+submachine+guns&qid=1736244825&sprefix=american+thunder+thompson%2Caps%2C472&sr=8-1

Augusta Arsenal rebuild marking. The E is for the inspector's last name.

What makes this interesting is the use of the M1907 sling on a Thompson. New Guinea, 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - George Strock Photographer WWP-PD

Why? Simply because there is no other legal alternative.