Posted September 12, 2017 11:45 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Lewis gun or camera? Don’t answer so fast, there. (Photo: Jamie Hanson/News Corp Australia)
While 643,726 firearms were handed over in Australia in 1996, the guns turned in this time around are fewer– and some aren’t even guns at all.
In an article from News Corp Australia chronicling the more “troubling” turn-ins, a pretty interesting piece from the World War I-era makes an appearance.
“Other disturbing finds include machine guns and a homemade sub-machine gun handed in anonymously in Sydney,” says the article before chopping to the image to the right, showing a Queensland Police officer holding up what looks to be one beast of a weapon that would be right at home with an Imperial Stormtrooper on Tatooine.
“Police have reported some of the quirkiest guns handed in are among the vintage variety, like this one handed in by an elderly Queensland woman,” says the caption, before cutting to another photo of the spade-gripped item among a collection that includes a number of Lugers, an M1911A1 and a S&W Model 61 Escort.
The thing is, the impressive hand cannon is actually a British-made Thornton-Pickard Mk III H model “camera gun” of the type used by the Royal Air Force, and to a lesser degree

Source: Guns.com

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