Machine guns on an old warbird?

[jrmiddleton425]

As far as registering the guns, it's not difficult. You could get get pre-May 1986 guns; you could also obtain post-'86 guns with an 01 or 07 FFL with Type 3 SOT certificate and "dealer sample" letters for them.

The FFL/Type 3 SOT route would also be less expensive. $200 for a three-year license and $500 annually for the SOT certificate. Post-'86 guns, last I knew, run $15-25,000, The last pre-'86 M2 I saw for sale was about $350,000.

I should note that the above applies to guns IN the USA. I don't know if BATFE would allow any to come in from outside the USA.

 

[jmorris]

But aren't aerodynamic forces more uniformly spread out along the wing, as opposed to a discrete point, or set of points?

Of course not or they wouldn’t be designed the way they are. There wouldn’t be any need for stronger sections of a wing if they all had the same forces on them.



And that’s nit even counting wings that have the engines mounted on them.

 

[Havok7416]

On the airframe side of this conversation, fighters (the primary aircraft with armament in the wings) are designed to survive G-forces many times above static loads to allow them to survive the twists and turns of combat. In other words, the basic airframe of a fighter is heavily overbuilt for normal or even airshow use. Properly maintained, you could mount about as many guns of whatever practical caliber you might desire on a typical fighter and fire them to your hearts content (wallet permitting).