Looking For - Lewis Gun

Got the Prohibited ticket from before 1978? If you don't, you're SOL. There have been no new FA permits issued since 1 Jan., 1978. If you don't have the current 'Converted' FA ticket, you can't have a semi'd one either. No more of them are being issued either.
 
I believe that Wilke here on the board has one available.

Be warned.....the Lewis is one of the most expensive dewats on the market!
I have no idea why as there were lots of them around (apparently) back in the 60's. I do know mine cost me more than some cars I have owned.:eek:
 
The most expensive? You priced a BREN lately?
Current value on a Lewis is around $13,000 in green money, while a BREN is about $30,000. I haven't seen a Vickers for sale for years.

Maybe they are cheaper north of the border.
 
John Sukey said:
The most expensive? You priced a BREN lately?
Current value on a Lewis is around $13,000 in green money, while a BREN is about $30,000. I haven't seen a Vickers for sale for years.

Maybe they are cheaper north of the border.
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You can't mean that people are paying that for deactivated bren's. I would think that that is what folks are paying for actual working specimens.
 
John Sukey said:
The most expensive? You priced a BREN lately?
Current value on a Lewis is around $13,000 in green money, while a BREN is about $30,000. I haven't seen a Vickers for sale for years.

Maybe they are cheaper north of the border.
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The US prices are irrelevant in the great white north.
A Lewis seems to go for around $3000 to $4000, either live or dewat.
A Bren runs anywhere from $400 for a dewat beater, to $800-1400 for either live or dewat.
The difference is that anyone in the US can own the US registered NFA guns; they just go to the guys with the most money. Up here, the pool of guys who can own them is dwindling as guys either pass away or get tired of putting up with the BS. For example, Full auto guys had to be grandfathered back in 78. At that time they had to be at least 18. So add the 28 years that have passed to their age, and the youngest are 46, while some of the full auto guys I meet are just happy when they wake up in the morning cause it means they get to keep their guns for one more day. The majority seem to be in their 50s and 60s.

In the US the number of guys who can own a fixed amount of guns keeps growing, so demand exceeds supply. Here, the number of guys who can own the fixed number of guns is dwindling, so the prices are a bit more stable. Currently those guns can't even go shooting, so that is another strike against some of the more common ones.
 
I wonder if Garry B. will be able to reinstate the full auto shoots? Probably shouldn't go to them anyways, gives me a huge erection for days!!!
 
Deano said:
You can't mean that people are paying that for deactivated bren's. I would think that that is what folks are paying for actual working specimens.
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Of course the guns are functional. However Dewats are getting as scarce as budgies teeth, since a dewat with the proper government paperwork can be legaly re-activated.
 
since a dewat with the proper government paperwork can be legaly re-activated.
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not so true north of the line. a dewat here has everything done to it to ensure it cannot be re-activated(not sure of all the details but i know the bolt face is chopped). once a gun is dewatted it disappears from the gov list and becomes a paperweight. if a dewat is reactivated it is an illegal firearm.
 
nkdjames said:
I'll second that, and someone needs to remake the FN-FAL just like the M1A is to the M14.
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The FN-FAL is prohibited by name anyways so it doesn't really matter, as are most "military" firearms from the 1946-1995 period. Pre-1946 firearms on the other hand were left virtually untouched, except for the Thompson Submachine Gun.
 
Isn't it wonderful to live in a free country where, if you don't commit any crimes, your hobby gets banned? Of course, if you DO commit a crime, you can always say that you are socially alienated.

MUCH more fun would be a Lewis Gun, a sunny day, a target and a 1248 of Mark VII Ball! I distinctly remember DEWAT Lewis Guns selling for $39.95 in Montreal, back in the 1960s. Still have the ad around here somewhere.... if I can find it, I'll post it.
 
I've shot a Lewis a number of times. They are quite an interesting design. A bit complicated, and must have been a chore to manufacture, but they shoot well. Some very good design features. Others, like the magazine system, are unnecessarily complex. But in 1911, there was no consensus about the best way to feed a LMG.
 
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