At 9:29 AM -0600 12/28/01, Jon Shoop wrote:
>I agree..it is a ever changing interpretation...some agents would not give
>it a second look...others would go to the extreme of removing them entirely
>and confiscating them.
>
>To keep in perspective...a mortar tube must be demilled by removal and weld
>up of the firing pin and retainer....a hole equal in size to the bore must
>be made in the tube as well.....most guys do this and fiberglass it over for
>the sake of hiding the big hole in the side.....
These things don't even have a firing pin from what I've seen. They
are just a tube of one diameter with a smaller threaded tube of
another diameter on one end. The smaller tube goes through 3 hole
base and allows the wires that feed the grenade's activator to work.
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