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Old 04-08-2021, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Absalom View Post
That is an interesting thought. However, there’s something that would suggest that this wasn‘t a worry at this point:

When these were sent in July 1940, S&W was already producing .38 S&W-chambered M&P‘s for the South African military, a belligerent along with Britain, and the South Africans did property-stamp those revolvers. Legally, the 1917s would not have been different.
I don't know anything about the US Neutrality Act, but the early South African M&Ps were a staight commercial purchase, ie South African property.

Peter
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