http://www.guns.com/2017/12/01/clint-eastwood-film-prop-turned-in-at-british-gun-amnesty/

It turns out that one of the guns handed over to police in a national amnesty this month in the UK had some screen time back in its prime.

As reported by Metro News, a former film worker turned in deactivated German MP40 submachine gun at Bridgwater police station in Somerset. Besides its military use, the demilled 9mm burp gun had a starring role in a 1968 MGM film shot in Europe, Where Eagles Dare, based on the Alistair MacLean war novel of the same name.

In the film, Allied commandos infiltrate a German base, disguised at one point as German soldiers. One of the commandos? Army Ranger Lt. Morris Schaffer, played by Clint Eastwood, who deftly used a pair of MP40s in the film to mow down ‘nassis as needed.

Avon and Somerset Police’s evidence manager, Richard Vise, said they confirmed the gun was a prop and it will be transferred to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.

In all, the agency pulled in 210 guns and gunlike objects including a 1918 Enfield, two rifles made into lamps, a dozen WWII-era handguns, and a 1907 Dreyse pistol.

Gunlike objects.

What an idiot, dewats are legal there aren't they? I would have auctioned it and made some cash if he no longer wanted it.

I should make a rifle lamp.

Maybe a shotgun like the Great Outdoors.

BS

89 dead nazis .

I think they counted 2 extras that didn't die, but only had a flesh wound.

So the total was actually 87.

Whoever turned in that gun was real dumbass.

lol, Brits.

"By Jupiter's beard that's a nice artifact you have!   That would look lovely in my museum!"

If it's a prop why not give it back to the person who turned it in? It's probably worth some money if it was used by Eastwood in a movie.

At least they didn't destroy it.

Cunts.

Because he didn't want it?

Could never happen here...

Country is full of cunts

I have a mortar lamp made from a Japanese WW2 round.