Acting at your peril
Why use a Glock 18, machine gun on a TV show? To avoid breaking arbitrary gun laws.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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September 15th, 2011 at 9:17 am
WOW! That’s legal wrangling right there. I wounder who they are using for a lawyer to keep them from running into legal trouble with all of these fun toy’s their bringing in.
I thought that the stamp meant that only the named person or members of the Trust could handle the firearm. I wonder how they did that one for the show? Or if everyone who touched that gun beside the people on the stamp were in violation of the law.
September 15th, 2011 at 11:02 am
You can see the whole episode at the link below. I don’t think they used a G18. They say G18 multiple times but if you look at the slow-mo shots there is no selector on the left side of the slide. It could be a class 2 dealer post-sample with a modified rear plate that they are calling a G18, but without that selector switch it ain’t a factory machine pistol.
http://www.history.com/shows/top-shot/videos/playlists/season-3-full-episodes#top-shot-3-turn-the-corner
September 15th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Followup: At the 32:00 mark I can see what looks like a loop protruding from the rear plate of that Glock. Looks like a post sample to me with a modified rear plate. So it was a Glock 18. Sorta.
September 15th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
I thought maybe they couldn’t find their Glock 7 and made do in the pinch.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:46 am
The trust hires the “actors”? Remember, the point of corporate NFA ownership is not to make things easier in the long run for collectors, but so that private security can have access to machine guns.
Thanks to to gun-spotters for keeping Colby honest, I had to take his word for it. Note that regardless of the presence of the fully automatic fire control bits, the serial-numbered part would need to have some kind of tax stamp, either an SBR stamp or an MG stamp. An MG stamp adds value to the firearm, since you can put in the MG parts. An SBR stamp would likely reduce the value unless leave it permanently in the SBR config since an NFA weapon has additional hoops to jump through to transfer. I can’t inscribe they’d that many people who would want to buy a Glock 17 together with the tax stamp just so they can make an SBR out of it when Glocks are so cheap.