Did you read the quote about "Making the gun safe"? In general, I would think that an unloaded weapon is about as safe as it gets, unless you drop it on your foot.
The police must have come in hazmat suits and then evacuated and cordoned off a 4 block area before gingerly approaching the dangerous weapon. I suspect that folks who find such a piece of history in their family's archival closets and turn them in to the police will then face charges for possessing these heinous objects and not having found and turned them in when Confiscation was decreed.
“In general, I would think that an unloaded weapon is about as safe as it gets, unless you drop it on your foot.”
I have a couple Webleys from a WW II Veteran Uncle. By their condition, I would guess my Uncle’s last words were “don’t fire the Webleys.”
Those evil guns again. Even nearly 100 years later they are trying to kill innocent launderers.
Well they probably wanted to file off the firing pin (or whatever) to make sure the weapon could never be fired again. Can you even get a cartridge/round for that thing?