![]() IMA considers all antique guns offered on our website as non-firing, inoperable and/or inert. This law exempts antique firearms from any form of gun control or special engineering. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns manufactured prior to 1899. Every musket, rifle, display machine gun, machine gun parts set or gun sold by IMA, Inc is engineered to be inoperable according to guidelines provided by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF). Everything for sale on is completely legal to own, trade, transport and sell within the United States of America. Legal Notice - International Military Antiques, Inc observes all Federal, State and local laws. Typically these gas masks get hard and brittle, this one has not! Genuine examples in this overall very good condition are always hard to find. The mask is in good soft supple condition with some wear. This is very nice example complete with mask, filter, carry satchel and is complete with the original instruction manual. made gas mask to see service in the gas soaked trenches of the Western Front. Upon passing a comprehensive battery of field tests, the CEM respirator went into full scale production in January of 1918. After numerous revisions, by October of 1917, the design had been perfected. Ever since the failure of the ASBR, American gasmask designers toiled to modify, improve, and ultimately make the American version of the SBR more comfortable, more reliable and stronger than the English mask that it mirrored. Produced in six sizes (1 through 6) from January to March 1918, the CEM was one of the two most commonly worn American made gas masks used by the AEF.ĭespite complaints from France regarding the British SBRs uncomfortable mouthpiece and its despised hated nose-clip, American gas experts determined that this type of respirator provided the best protection. Corrected English Small Box Respirator or the U.S. This mask was officially known as the U.S. during the war, 1.6 million of them were the improved version of the British SBR. ![]() Of the 5,250,000 gas masks of all types produced by the U.S.
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