I Need help. With WW2 machine gun

[Noah_Zark]

As for the value, keine Ahnung.

Noah

[Dillmcdill]

Can it be repaired?

[Dillmcdill]

Again thanks for all the help.

[gnbrotz]

Can it be repaired?

If you mean "Can it be restored to being a fully operational machine gun", then, no.

[Hodgie]

Can it be repaired?

It would need to be rebuilt on a new receiver by someone who knows how to convert this to a semi auto. Your looking at a hell of a lot of money from a builder how specializes in doing this.

[SgtRecon]

Can it be repaired?

If it was built by man, it can be repaired by man

[Noah_Zark]

Is it able to be repaired?

And made functional select-fire machine gun for ownership by an individual like you or me?

NO. Against a 1986 law.

As Hodgie wrote, at considerable cost it could be rebuilt into a semi-auto only but you would have to find a gunsmith who could do it by making a number of specialized parts. The cost would be prohibitive; thousands of dollars, maybe as much as $10,000-$15,000 or more.

A certain type of Federal Firearms Licensee ("SOT") could possibly make it a functional machine gun again if the rest of the parts could be found, but even in that event, the weapon could only be possessed by that FFL-SOT or sold to another FFL-SOT, or to a law enforcement agency. Not you or me.

That's it in a nutshell. If you made an "investment", you can sell the parts to a collector or owner of another StGw 57 that was made prior to May 1986, or to an FFL-SOT interested in buying the parts, or to an individual such as yourself who just wants to have a bunch of cool pieces of steel and plastic.

Buy you can NEVER, under any circumstances, "repair" that yourself into a fully functional machine gun except under penalty of $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison if convicted of possession of an illegal machine gun.

Noah

[Hodgie]

They can be converted to semi auto as some were imported that way from what I’ve read.

[cdi]

I'm thinking the op is not in the U.S.

[Dillmcdill]

I only spent $200 on it was hoping to restore it to shooting condition, not F/A but semi