As licensed collectors of fully functional firearms, we are always careful with embracing deactivated guns. We do not want to give any authorities the impression that collecting deactivated guns is a serious alternative to having access to fully functional firearms. From a research point of view, a deactivated gun is pretty much useless.
I have some cutaways in the collection that help to illustrate the inner workings, but a welded up gun with no access to it's former functionality does not add much other than a visual reference to how it once looked.
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