There were probably other MP38 parts on the AYF as well, though I don’t remember.
Although the AYF was previously registered before 1968 as a MP40, the following MP38 parts were noticed (even as far back as the late 1950s): The rear sling trench area was very flat and the barrel cap did not have a groove in the middle. It was a hybrid mixture of both MP38 and MP40 parts. The AYF, however, would be of serious interest to collectors today. After only five attempts, the fifth bar fit perfectly. A few very late MP38s and throughout the production MP40s had mostly phenolic resin bars while very late MP40 production guns had ribbed tin). (The bars were aluminum throughout production of the MP38. Two were BNZ by Steyr and a third an AYF by Erma. I purchased three more MP40s, all DWAT, from various publications during the late 1950s.
No exceptions! More than a few live or Dewat automatic weapons were sold unrecorded before 1968.
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However, the 1968 Amnesty registration stopped unregistered machine gun sales cold.Īll “Dewats” ($10 registration fee) and live machine guns ($200 registration fee) had to be registered by 1968. Years before, during the 1920s through the 1930s, prohibition had muddied the easy acquisition picture up to and including 1968.Ī case in point could be: A live 1921 Thompson submachine gun could be purchased at many hardware stores. However, a considerable number had already been weld-deactivated by the mid 1960s. The chance of acquiring an active (as is) automatic weapon before the 1968 amnesty was very good.
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