The Firing Line Forums - View Single Post - Re the destruction of The Pedersen Device

alan · May 29, 2014, 07:18 PM

James K:

Thanks for the update, pretty much as I had thought, government do-do. As for the thing being "classified", I don't know about you, but I've seen several "Mark 1 Springfield Actions", with a port at about 10 O'clock in the receiver ring, this I believe being the ejection port for spent Pedersen brass.

As to "we can't allow these to fall into the hands of the wrong people", who might these "wrong people" possibly have been, perhaps law abiding American citizens, the same ones that a few years later, just as had been the case earlier, were sent off to war, by possibly the same politicians?

By the way, prior to enactment of National Firearms Act of 1934, one could but automatic weapons, if their purse was full enough. I wonder as to how many law abiding types shot up banks with legally purchased machine guns. The Pedersen Device was SEMI AUTOMATIC too. Oh well, it went BANG

May 29, 2014, 07:18 PM	#6
alan Senior Member Join Date: June 7, 1999 Posts: 3,847	James K: Thanks for the update, pretty much as I had thought, government do-do. As for the thing being "classified", I don't know about you, but I've seen several "Mark 1 Springfield Actions", with a port at about 10 O'clock in the receiver ring, this I believe being the ejection port for spent Pedersen brass. As to "we can't allow these to fall into the hands of the wrong people", who might these "wrong people" possibly have been, perhaps law abiding American citizens, the same ones that a few years later, just as had been the case earlier, were sent off to war, by possibly the same politicians? By the way, prior to enactment of National Firearms Act of 1934, one could but automatic weapons, if their purse was full enough. I wonder as to how many law abiding types shot up banks with legally purchased machine guns. The Pedersen Device was SEMI AUTOMATIC too. Oh well, it went BANG