After WW1 many of the purchasers of US Savings Bonds received a dewat Maxim gun in appreciation for their investments. Now lots of those guns still exist but no one know that they had to be registered years later. So they are now unregistered and illegal, making criminals of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
I have come across, or heard of, at least a dozen over the recent years. They are all really neat and I'd love to have them, but none are worth touching...
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