Looks like an MG-34 to me. I wonder if it's a DEWAT or the "real deal"?
More than 313 arms turned in to police
Ron Pozzer, the Hamilton Spectator
Chief Brian Mullan exhibits firearms turned in at Central Police Station. They will be destroyed.
Machine-gun from Second World War
By Paul Morse
The Hamilton Spectator
(Mar 10, 2006)
Hamilton's month-long gun amnesty is only nine days old and already over 313 firearms have been handed to police.
Some have more jaw-dropping firepower than others.
Earlier this week, one Ancaster resident alone turned over 67 rifles and shotguns and one handgun.
The next day, he called police again and told them he had one more weapon to get rid of. When officers returned to his home, he handed them one of the most feared machine-guns of the Second World War -- the German MP-42.Built to fire 1,300 rounds a minute, the machine-gun was easily manufactured, reliable and worked under the most adverse conditions.
Police have two wheeled laundry carts full of rifles and shotguns, including an American Winchester rifle more than 100 years old.
They have collected boxes of handguns, from flintlock duelling pistols to one-shot Derringers small enough to slip under a woman's garter.
All firearms handed in under the amnesty will be destroyed, said Chief Brian Mullan, even weapons of historical significance. That's the pact we've made with the owners turning in the guns, the chief said yesterday.
"Owners will know if the gun is historically significant and they can turn them over to a museum. But if they turn them over to us, we will destroy them."
Under the amnesty, police will accept unregistered firearms without prosecution, including weapons brought back by war veterans.
Police will screen all weapons for use in a crime, which can result in a criminal investigation.
ETA... just noticed the M3A1 Grease gun in front!
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