2" mortar 'Bomb Thrower'

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Just wondering what a person should do if they were to have found one while cleaning out a grandparents house. I believe it was fitted to the turret roof of a tank and used to launch smoke bombs.

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smoke candle discharger, it is probably a reciever of a worn out ross or lee enfield with the barrel cut down and threaded to hold a big can like discharger cup. the mag may or may not be intact and the trigger may or may not have a lop or hole for the cable to fire it.
 
tiriaq said:
If it is one with the cutdown Ross, it is deemed to be a prohibited firearm.
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A cut down Ross would use a 4" tube. The tube is OK. The cut down Ross, as you say, prohibited. I expect the 2" launcher was a late war, purpose built device but I can't recall if the 'bomb' was launched by a blank rifle round (like the Ross) or the 'bomb' was self firing, more like a flare. If the latter, I expect the device isn't a firearm at all.
 
NVShooter said:
This is funny...when are we going to see a picture so all of this speculation can be put aside???
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Pics. Sheeesh. Either of these look like the OP's find?

Here's the Ross discharger that screws into a 4" tube. The Ross is a Mk.III and, if not deactivated like this one, is a cut down .303 prohibited. The 4" tube is is what holds the 'smoke bomb' and is fine. These were also mounted in tank turrets with the Ross inside and the tube outside (hard to reload under fire).



Here's the purpose built smoke discharger screwed into the roof of a Grizzly tank (behind the periscope). I think it was 2" and I'm not sure what propels the smoke round. Unlike the Ross it can be reloaded from the inside.

Edit: There is one more I can think of. It looks like a large frame, break action Webley revolver, only in place of the cylinder and barrel there's a 2" tube with lugs to screw into the turret roof. Sorry, no pic of that one. If it is this, then it's a flare device and not a firearm either.

 
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the lee enfield ones were used as blasters for thye jawas in starwars


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Rather than deactivate or get in a pickle about it being prohibited, why not just have the barrel taken out of the received? The receiver is not prohibited, and as long as the barrel is more than 4.14", it isn't either. It could be threaded back in loosely for display but then turned back out for storage. No welding/chopping/torching required.

By the way, if anyone has a spare discharge cup for a Ross unit as shown, let me know.
 
makes one wonder, is the cup actually the barrel?

another example would be the (cooey?) carcano with the new barrel threaded into the cut down barrel stub, those seem to pass the non restricted test
 
scott585 said:
makes one wonder, is the cup actually the barrel?

another example would be the (cooey?) carcano with the new barrel threaded into the cut down barrel stub, those seem to pass the non restricted test
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The cup isn't the barrel and unless it fires a round at whatever speed required to qualify it as a firearm it isn't one. The problem with the Ross discharger (or Enfield because they made them too) is that regardless of the 4" tube the 'firearm' itself is a rifle with a short barrel and overall short length...prohibited.

I'm not sure what Carcano you're referring to. PM?
 
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these ones

the original barrel was cut off at a couple inches and then the stub was threaded and a new barrel added to it, and chambered for a different cartridge, more than a few are in canada

the short length is not necessarily a problem either, look at the mares leg
 
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