26Intrepid,
It is a trainer and is marked on the stock stating a training machine Gun. I do not know much about Training machine guns. I can also see the gas tube is not even connected to the receiver. I don't think it would fire. I am attaching an image of a active Receiver that fires on my Type 96 LMG. Yours is totally different. I checked Robert Segel's book "Handbook of Machine Guns Support Equipment and Accessories 1895-1945" and there was nothing on Japanese Training machine Guns. I hope someone that know about Training will comment on you posting. I would like to know also.

Kaydee
Dwight Brown

 

Kaydee,

Thanks for the comment... yes, I figured it was a trainer due to the stamping on the butt stock.

It’s an interesting piece for sure. All my guns are active firing guns... I don’t own any trainers or non-firing weapons. This would be a first... asking price is $1100.00...

 

Kaydee,

would be a first... asking price is $1100.00...

Damn.......I'd take that for 1100.00 in a heart beat!!

 

This is the same trainer posted by another user. Price is decent, if legal. To the best of my knowledge BATF still considers trainers machine guns, and they must be properly registered. If not, in my opinion, no gun is worth risking your collection or your freedom for.

 

Yes, I just researched it. Even trainers have to be registered with ATF. I’m out... don’t know if it’s being sold legally and no sense of risking it. Thanks for the post..

 

A trainer can be deacivated, so rushing out in panic mode may have cost the OP a good deal. His intiial post said it was deactivated and he was interested. He also posted that he knew it probably was a trainer. Now, he is not interested becasue it was a trainer? I dont see how the ATF position would be a deal breaker. Deactivaed is deactivated.

Today we are looking at a different example tacked onto a old post. Which is fine. But, I could not resist commenting on the original discussion.

 

That looks awesome.

 

 

Just picked this up it's supposed to be a late war trainer

 

This is a Type 96 LMG and the receiver has three rows of markings.
1st row: Kokura Arsenal logo 九六式 [96 Type].
2nd row: Unreadable but would have been the serial number, in this case, in the low 48,000 range.
3rd row: 昭16.8 [August 1941].

 

Forgotten weapons has a video about trainers, looks like the one in 26's post,

 

I forgot about this post... I kick myself for not closing the deal, I absolutely should’ve!