This reminds me about another thread on a different forum I am on more than this one. A guy opened a thread and posted a picture of something he inherited in the way of a firearm they found in his grandfathers collection. He could not figure what it was and none of us recognized it at first either. But after a number of us did some searching we realized it was an original 1917 Lewis Gun missing the barrel's shroud/heat shield. We had the site Admin kill the thread and told him he needed to contact the ATF ASAP. I know that the ATF has people surfing the internet looking for things on a daily basis.
And there is no such thing as a silencer really. That is one thing the Steven Seagal movie got right and that is once it is really suppressed you can still hear the action cycle. But the thing he got wrong was that you can only really do a good job suppressing if the gun shoots sub-sonic ammo. A suppresser will not remove the crack from the sonic boom when a bullet goes supersonic. What it does suppress is the explosion bang of the powder going off. Especially semi autos. Bolt guns shooting subsonic ammo are easier because there is no sound openning out the back of the gun. And unlike Hollywood movies you can't suppress a revolver. I used to always get a kick from the old TV series like Get Smart and The Man From UNCLE when someone had a 3" "silencer" on a revolver and it made no sound at all (because they turned the sound recording off when shooting blanks).
