12/3 Lanchester Mk1 smg & 12/3 PPSh-41 smg.---is there any interest?

I would love to have both guns in my 12-3 collection, but the Lanchester would be the one I would pick.
Ottawa is a pain in the A$$ I have been waiting for 18 months for my FN FAL to be inspected without any movement.
I tried calling Steven Blaneys office and they gave a ministers number to talk to them about it.
I will try them, and just keep at them in a firm but polite manor.
My argument is this.
The RCMP is a government agency, and should they want to take on this task (Inspections) they are obliged to have an Acceptable Service Standard, which this is not. "We do inspections when we aren't doing work for the RCMPs cases".
This is an election year so time to turn up the heat.
 
The PPSh-41 shown in this thread I purchased from Bruce Strader in July 2005.
The gun originally belonged to Bruce's good friend Victor Zubatiuk who died in September 2002.
Bruce passed away on March 17 2015.
Bruce Strader's large collection was sold at auction by Switzer on June 1-3 2013. (There was a thread on CGN regarding that sale.)

I met Bruce in 2003 and I used to visit him during the summer holidays as my cottage was close to where he lived.
Bruce was a Service Rifle Shooting Association (SRSA) guy as was Victor Zubatiuk and Finn Nielson.
They all ended up joining the Royal Yorker Regiment a reenacting group which was founded in 1974.

In Memoriam
Bruce Strader (Page 11)

http://royalyorkers.ca/newsletter/2015-2 KRRNY.pdf

Left to right Victor Zubatiuk--Bruce Strader at Fort Wellington in 1976.




Victor Zubatiuk.




In Memoriam. (Finn died on July 30 2008.)
Finn Nielson.
http://royalyorkers.ca/memoriam.php

Finn Nielson.



Finn joined Service Rifle in 1967 as the organization's 17th member. When the Royal Yorkers were formed in 1974---Finn bought in.
In December 1981 Finn was appointed the head of the firearms section of the Center of Forensic Sciences a post that he held until 1996.
Finn's name and signature is seen on the Center of Forensic Sciences document that appears earlier in this thread when two of my guns were inspected. ( The Lanchester being one of them)


More background.
GRANDAD’S HISTORY OF CANADIAN REENACTING
http://royalyorkers.ca/history_of_reenacting.php
 
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The photo below was taken in Bruce Strader's backyard in July 2005.



That was the first time that I photographed the gun.
Bruce had blank cartridges that we fired from the box magazine.
Victor Zubatiuk the original owner of the gun was a reenactor and he probably set up the barrel for firing blanks.

A blank firing “Allen Screw” 5/32 was screwed into the end of the barrel.
We shot it with blanks….it really blows the empty shells up in the air with great energy. I took the screw out of the barrel and saved it.

Bruce gave me the original barrel that he found in August 2006 which I have.



Bruce was selling the gun for Victor Zubatiuk's widow.

I think that these Service Rifle Shooting Association (SRSA) guys had a great deal of fun back in those days shooting their vintage full autos etc. at military bases legally----doing demonstrations.
 
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