Police seize one of 'biggest ever arsenal of firearms' in east London

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Talking of de-acts makes me think of that scene in the Lock Stock movie where the druggie opens up with a machine gun (Bren if I remember correctly) that he thought was de-activated. Also, when I was an army cadet as a teenager, we had to stop training with the de-act SLRs after some were stolen and then used in robberies.

Which makes me think of something that Selco said on his blog about an old dude in their war that developed a fearsome reputation after walking around with a machine-gun and shoulders draped with ammo belts. After the war he came clean and showed that it was actually a de-activated unit from a local museum and not capable of being fired at all. But, also proving that as long as you look and act the part, then you can scare a lot of people off (ie. the same way preppers who can't get firearms can at least keep some people at bay with swords etc when needs be).