IMA considers all antique guns offered on our website as non-firing, inoperable and/or inert. This law exempts antique firearms from any form of gun control or special engineering. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns manufactured prior to 1899. Every musket, rifle, display machine gun, machine gun parts set or gun sold by IMA, Inc is engineered to be inoperable according to guidelines provided by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF). Everything for sale on is completely legal to own, trade, transport and sell within the United States of America. Legal Notice - International Military Antiques, Inc observes all Federal, State and local laws. There is a piece of wood attached to it that the clapper hits, making this the loudest rattle we have ever encountered, as most we have had were incomplete, missing the metal resonator.Īn early authentic Air Raid warning rattle from the London's Blitz. This example is very sturdily built, and even has a galvanized steel cover that produces the sound. Just above the crank it is marked D.S.W. and DATED 1941. The upper wood surface is stamped with the suppliers ID of S21 in a triangle under a military Broad Arrow. They became somewhat redundant once the country was covered by Air Raid sirens, but nevertheless in the early days every resource was put to use. We now know that no one used poison gas as a military weapon in WW2, so the Gas Rattles were instead used to warn people to get to shelters before air raids commenced. The fear of course once WWII began was that the NSDAP War machine would reintroduce poison gas, which would be delivered by aerial bombardment. With all the noise in the trenches, the wooden gas rattle was adopted to alert soldiers in the trenches of an impending attack. These rattles had a totally unique sound, and were quite jarring, being able to be heard above the din of war. In WWI poison gas was introduced, now totally outlawed as inhumane.
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