Mesatchornug
NES Member
That's the thing, though, there is no intersection between the legal issue and the practicality.
The only guns that are remotely practical for the purpose of "EDC carry with an antique" are C96s and two categories of revolvers: 7.5mm and 8mm early smokeless revolvers from places like Switzerland, France, Japan, Sweden, Norway, and Russia.
Let's just remove the Nagants (Russia, Norway, and Sweden) from consideration because of how stupidly slow they are to reload.
About fifty seconds lol
I don't know how much faster a M1892 Lebel or M1882 Swiss Ordnance is to reload than a Nagant, but let's say those are faster and less likely to get OP killed in the streets.
The options I can think of that are safe to use with smokeless and not useless are the C96, Type 26, M1892 Lebel, and M1882 Swiss Ordnance lol, and none of those are actually easy to *use*
The thing about the 1899 versus 1898 date is that it practically doesn't matter in terms of being able to buy a gun. For instance, I looked up when Lugers and Webley MkIVs came out - 1899 - but the only examples from 1899 were trials guns. Like say a $57,500 Swiss/British trials Luger.
Enough people unironically carry 5 and 6 shot DA revolvers, without a reload, that it's reasonable (to me) to consider that an acceptable method of carry, even if I don't choose it. From that perspective, I think we can chew on the idea...with all due respect for all the practical concerns you raise.