Originally Posted by
RichJohnson
There are a few operational uncut tank guns out there. The big dealer has an operational firing m41 on his site right now.
The m5 i am riding in my avatar icon is a firing tank :-)
It takes a destructive device liscense from the BATF to own one of these. There is a Sherman here in San Diego as well this is "Fully Functional" as LtCDR Data would say.
my friend has a cut and welded 106mm recoil less rifle on his jeep that we fire nerf footballs out of. Good fun.
Yeah I had a California State DD license in the late 1970s. I owned a Lathi 20mm anti tank rifle ( which I fired on three or four sessions)
and a Japanese 37mm anti tank gun.
To give you an idea of the different world we lived in back then, the first weapon took over a year to get between interviews, licenses, paperwork plus waiting
for other guys ( it was a 'group buy' - some 20 of us bought them at the same time) to get their money together. The California DOJ was the most interesting
group to work with; they sent 2 guys to my home to 'interview' me and asked all sorts of questions. They approved it. When I applied for the 37mm I expected the
same process. So I called them and their reply? " Oh yeah just let us know when you get it, give us the serial number and manufacturer and we'll add it to your license"
Now I KNOW that wouldn't happen today....sadly I got rid of that stuff ( in the case of the 37mm even before I actually finished the deal) because I needed the money for
other stuff...all stuff....As I understnd it's relatively restrictive to own those things in the Golden State these days...
Jerry