type 96 replica.

This looks pretty splendid!

http://wwiiguns.com/display_news.php?id=159

Mmmmmm very nice indeed!
Then I saw the price!


But I can't get one over here anyway.

wow thats a heck of a price... you can get a deactivated one (real) for about 200£..... wow!!!!

I noticed later that it is soft air not a model gun, although the first pages description is misleading, the second page definitely says that it is soft air.

Honestly, I think you would have to be a little nuts to spend that sort of money on what is essentially a toy gun, in this economic climate. But, these things are free to look at, right?

Jon - The rules and prices on "deactivated" firearms are very different in the US to the UK, getting a type 96 as a dummy weapon ( a parts kit built around a dummy receiver), or just a parts kit would be about the same cost as the replica in the US, if you could find one for sale - I'm sure you're aware of this, as a cursory scanning of any international gunboards covers these differences, ad nauseum - so I won't bore you - but, it is interesting to know they are so cheap to buy in the UK.

JJ

the us have very tight laws concerning this type of thing.. yet strangley in the uk where firearms are very strict there seems to be that principle that its ok as long as it has been deactivated.... which to me is strange.... people in the usa cant even hold a mag for this.. (ok state pending) but I do understand.. its really strange.

were ok over here about people having guns ....as long as they dont work

and if the current gov has its way ..it will be only if they are all welded solid .

DOC

the goverment doesnt realise how easy it is to machine your own barrel.... make a firing pin... and even the springs.. as I said it before these are more dangerous than having replica and blank firing weapons....
ps I am in east yorkshire (humberside) but from the usa.. so have a good knowledge of both sides of the pond.

Not only this is a toy - this is an AEG instead of gas blowback so don't expect any recoil when firing...

According to a Japanese online gun shop:

九六式軽機関銃　【１００挺限定生産】 (only 100 pcs made)
予約商品　４月末発売 (release date: end of April)
定価 ３４４，４００円（税込） (price: 344,400 yen)
予約受付金額 ３０９，９６０円（税込） (pre-order price: 309,960 yen)

■電動エアガン
■全長：----ｍｍ（ストック折畳時）　■重量：----ｇ
■装弾数：58発 (magazine capacity: 58 rds)

旧日本軍により広く使用された
軽機関銃「九六式軽機関銃」が
フルメタルで電動ガン化！アル
ミ削り出しアウターバレル、ア
ルミ鋳造レシーバー、南部鉄器
製フロントサイト＆銃床尾部、
他パーツもホワイトメタル製で
再現！くるみ材の木製ストック
など豪華仕様となっています。
マガジンは外装がスチールプレ
スの５８連発ボックスマガジン
が２本付属します。電動ユニッ
トはマルイ・スコーピオン・ユ
ニット！バッテリーはマルイ純
正7.2Ｖ・ＥＸバッテリーをレシー
バー内に収納みたいな（？）。 (outer barrel & receiver in aluminium / steel-pressed 58rd magazine / use Marui's 7.2V batteries).