Machine gun fires after being buried for 70 years!

[scubadive.ri]

[video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440[/video]

 

[Rob Boudrie]

The machine guns will now be made safe and join the rest of the aircraft on permanent display in Derry,

A crime against history (the first part, that is)

 

[MisterHappy]

First: Meh. A Browning design works. In other news, water is wet.

Second: de-mil is a good idea. Europe is an Utopia, now, with no problems on the horizon, right? No need for this sort of thing. [sad2]

 

[cockpitbob]

Machine gun fires after surviving a crash and being buried for 70 years!

Fixed the thread title for you

That crash contains much of why we won the war. Without John Browning's guns, and without the Brit's Rolls Royce Merlin engine (also powered our Mustangs), we would have a hard time beating the Germans.

 

[Dench]

A crime against history (the first part, that is)

As with almost all gun laws and regulations, there's a movie that's caused .gov's to do this.

In Demolition Man ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film) ) they have to go to a museum to get guns that sill work in the future Utopia that the movie is set in. In order to prevent criminals from the past using guns in the future, UK officials have disabled this weapon.

It makes perfect sense when you think about it.

 

[MtRiverCharlie]

As with almost all gun laws and regulations, there's a movie that's caused .gov's to do this.

In Demolition Man ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film) ) they have to go to a museum to get guns that sill work in the future Utopia that the movie is set in. In order to prevent criminals from the past using guns in the future, UK officials have disabled this weapon.

It makes perfect sense when you think about it.

Now that..was funny as hell.

 

[me109g4]

Well they were "safe" when they put them in the spitfire,, what made them "unsafe" when removed???

 

[Pilgrim]

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vb...-fire-after-being-buried-in-a-bog-for-decades!