So the idea is to slowly completely destroy the pistols out there, as sooner or later everything changes hands.

Are there provisions to avoid this in the case of an inheritance?

If one had a Luger that had already undergone the first mutalation, and was going to have to have the mag welded into the frame, one could remove the mag follower and spring before the welding, and still be able to dry fire it......but not field strip it. What a shame!! :(

It doesn't look like it. The act states any guns that are "sold, battered or given away" after April 8th must have the new deactivation.

This is getting ridiculous. I think your government must hate all of us collectors. This mutilation trend sure tends to discourage collecting, buying & selling. At what point does a pistol become unrecognizable to its original form?

Are the Bobbies really afraid of someone robbing a bank with a flintlock? Or is it just irrational fear of anything that goes bang!

- Geo

Honestly reading the posts of this thread hurts me...
I can only hope that it won't be like that also in the rest of Europe...

I realize that from the States these words will sound strange, to say he least, but in my opnion the years we are living now remind me of the collapse of the Ancient Roman Empire, when the Romans slowly became more and more softened and allowed people coming from outside the Empire (uncivilized barbarians) to take key places in their society, in their Army and so on.
Now day by day we are slowly getting invaded by people from North Africa and Middle East with a culture that is clashing agains ours, and while our European leaders discuss about nonsensical things like the correct size the cucumbers shoud have (I'm not joking), or like banning the ownership of guns to honest people and so on these barbarians a day not too far away will tell us what do do, what to wear, what to eat, what to pray... :grr:

Sergio:
I can assure you that your concerns are shared throughout the USA. Maybe not with the strength that they deserve, but we too see, and share, your foreboding. To me it is not a question of IF something happens to cause this house of cards to fall, but WHEN.
dju