Here are photos of a personally owned deactivated Winchester 37A 20-gauge shotgun with a 3" chamber, 28" barrel and a walnut finish, identical to the model seen in ED1. I paid for a working shotgun from a UK company in Dorset for £150, and they sent it to an armourer in Devon to be deactivated costing another £75.
Deactivated, as in the UK you need a firearms licence to own a working firearm, which is not easy to get if you don't have a proper use for one (such as a farmer using it for pest control, or are a member of a shooting club) You can't just own a gun because you want one, which is why we have so few gun deaths here. You can however freely buy Deactivated guns just for show, which involves a certified armourer taking a working gun welding the firing pin, milling out a long section of the barrel and welding a steel plug in the barrel, so it could never be fired, or converted back into a working firearm. It looks real, but could never fire anything.
I can't remember how I found the guy who supplied the real 20ga shells, I think it was though an online search, but he bought a box of them and drilled though the plastic casing on each one to remove the primer/gunpowder, leaving the shells intact. I filled the drill holes in and painted them over so they looked normal again, and dirtied all the shells down.
The ED1 screen-matching Federal shells box is original, I bought it from eBay.com for around $40 in 2016. These boxes are increasingly rare, and don't come up that often. One point of note; while there were a fair number of virtually identical examples of this box available during the 70s/80s, the top flap-lid on all of them seems to open the opposite way round, to the version shown on screen. It seems most likely that the screen used flap-lid was cut off, and stuck back on the other way round, explaining this, although this could still be a previously unseen box variant.
ED1 Replica Single Barrel Winchester 37A 20-gauge Shotgun
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ED1 Replica Single Barrel Winchester 37A 20-gauge Shotgun
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