Sturmgewehr 44 found at a gun buy back

[HorseSoldier]

There are a good number of StG-44s that were brought back by WW2 vets. Some of them were properly papered under the Gun Control Act of '68 and are legal, some occasionally turn up in attics and basements when a veteran passes that are unregistered machineguns and ATF kryptonite. I think I read a story a couple years back on some crazy legal hoops and hurdles the heirs of a deceased WW2 vet had to go through to get an unregistered StG-44 legally transferred to a museum.

As for a post-Twilight militia member using one -- unless grandpa also brought back a pallet of ammunition as well it's just not plausible (a pallet of magazines would be nice, too . . .). 7.92x33 was still in production in both East Germany and Yugoslavia in the 90s (and is still made today), but I'm pretty certain importation to the US simply didn't happen during the Cold War and wouldn't happen in the T2K continued Cold War scenario. (You can purchase the ammo these days, though it's pricey, and someone was working on bringing in modern firing replicas being made in Germany though I don't know if that ever came to fruition -- but that's all from after the walls came down.)

There's no round you can fireform 7.92x33 cartridges off of, as far as I know, and honestly if some militia group had the means to produce new brass cartridges I can think of a bunch of better candidates for that project than a wonky cartridge that also requires a special, off caliber/bullet weight projectile as well.

On the other hand -- StG-44s would have been on the battlefields down in the Balkans in limited numbers, and with ammo having been produced in East Germany also (to supply the fraternal socialist revolutionaries and such who inherited most of them, like Syria) some might turn up in central Europe as well with ammunition to keep them fed. Obviously real world experience has indicated that they might turn up in the T2K CENTCOM AOR as well.