[archy]

Oh my god, that deactivated Bren gun is loaded with a clip full of inert rounds! LOL

Don't be so certain that the Bren was a DeWat. Following the motorbike crash that took the life of Thomas Edward Lawrence, AKA *Lawrence of Arabia*, the executors of his estate found a number of lovely trophies from his service at his cottage at Cloud's Hill, including a perfectly servicable Lewis Gun with several drums of ammo for it.

His S.M.L.E. rifle- with five notches in the stock- resides in the Imperial War Museum collection, following Lawrence's presentation of it to Britain's King George V.

[David Hunter]

It would have been extremely unlikely that it could have survived all these years without being deactivated unless it was in some old WWI soldier's attic. T.E. Lawrence died back in 1935 when you could still own fully-automatic weapons and short-shotguns in Britain legally with a Firearms certificate. In fact, many people, especially WWI veterans, probably didn't register their guns when the Firearms Act of 1920 came into force (as they would have had to justify why they had them if they wanted to keep them).

Nowadays, of course, you would get a minimum of 5 years and probably more like 10 years in prison for mere possession of a fully-automatic weapon and you can be sure that the cops would have had those two guns checked out to make sure that they were deactivated.