German friend has luger in Germany

[DonVoigt]

There was a time that simply removing the barrel or bolt of a machine gun rendered it "de-activated".

During the 1968 Amnesty Registration a simple statement of "deactivated by removing bolt(or barrel), barrel(or bolt) , not in my possession". was sufficient to effect registration of a "dewat" machinegun. (Don't argue with me, I saw the paper work at the time and still have copies in my possession.)