Mega Rad Gun Thread

[PP Police]

Supposedly many of them will be mint as well. Thousands of them were completely rebuilt at the arsenal before deep storage. I’m sure a lot of them will be rough too, likely the returned foreign loaned guns.

It makes me wonder if they’ll sell the EBR as well. That’d be a neat gun to own

 

[Romulus augustulus]

It makes me wonder if they’ll sell the EBR as well. That’d be a neat gun to own

If there are any it will doubtless be auctioned off like the other rarities the CMP scrounges up.
My understanding is that the EBR was a unit level mod and the arsenals required the guns returned in as issued condition: wood stocked with irons, but I may be misremembering
As far as I know they have 1000 national match guns that were previously issued to competitors in the 90s that were recalled after 9/11. Im sure those will be auction fodder.
The TRW guns are the best made. They were an aerospace company. Springfield and Winchester are the rarest manufacturers.

 

[Belgians in the Congo]

Tanfoglio*

I said what I said.

Can you get ahold of Wilson Combat magazines down there?

Not really, I'd have to have them imported (which is a pain since magazines fall under ITAR)

 

[Romulus augustulus]

I said what I said.
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Not really, I'd have to have them imported (which is a pain since magazines fall under ITAR)

fairly old tanfo. they were imported under Witness brand by EAA, whose contract ended about 10? years ago. Tanfo now comes in under IFG.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

If someone still made a very small da/sa cz75 like gun id carry that, I *felt* safer with it than the Glock but don't appendix carry. Cz discountuned the little one they did.

CZ RAMI exists and I fucking want one.

 

[The Dude]

Also, don't forget that CMP is also getting surplus shotguns too.

My military shotgun dream gun is a Stevens 520 trench gun, the one that's got kind of a humpback receiver like the Browning Auto-5. Everyone always wants the M1987, and it is a beautiful weapon, but I love the Stevens 520. There was a company about 15 years ago called Counterfeit Trench Guns or something like that which were taking commercial Stevens 520 and 620 shotguns and making very high quality trench gun replicas for not a lot of money.

am i the only person in the universe with a somewhat positive view of the thompson's ergonomics

I've been lucky enough to fire all three major generations of original Thompson SMGs: the 1921, 1928, and M1. I've always found all three to be very comfortable weapons, but tended to prefer the M1A1. I've also fired original M3 Greaseguns and MP40s. They all have their pros and cons, but I've always liked the Thompson. I've talked about this a few times, but my old man was in the Navy and served on a PBR during the Vietnam War. His boatcrew's skipper had an M1A1 Thompson that he traded an ARVN officer for, got really good at controlling the boat with his left hand while firing the Thompson with his right, and never had any issues with it. Their whole boatcrew were sticklers for keeping all their weapons maintained and cleaned, so they rarely had any issues with their weapons.

Hey could you say where grabbed one of those from? I wanted to pick one up but was having a hard time finding a legit looking seller.

Right now you can only get them from the guy making them on eBay. His eBay page is called BTO Surplus. I actually just ordered a second speed loader plus two of the extended grips that are designed to thread onto them. His service has been great so far and he's gotten each of my orders shipped out within about 24hrs of me placing the order.

The Israeli's still have the M1 in service to some extent, either with police or "settlers". Americans love making 10/22 chassis abominations and the Jews love doing to the M1 in much the same way. They received so many M1's as foreign "aid" that a whole cottage industry of modernization parts sprung up.

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I'm pretty sure that weird Galil looking one is, or was, an actual IMI/IWI product and it basically is a shrunk down Galil chambered in .30 Carbine that feeds from M1 and M2 Carbine magazines. Not some kind of chassis for the M1 Carbine. I don't know if they're made anymore, but they were intended for Israeli law enforcement and tactical teams to free up military grade weapons for the IDF. Neat little carbines, and I kinda wish they'd make them available in the US. They'd probably be a great home defense weapon or something for kids and smaller people.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

CZ RAMI exists and I fucking want one.

Colt also made that under license like 20 years ago. I believe it was called the Z40. Colt/CZ have had a long relationship even before the buyout.

 

[The Dude]

Colt also made that under license like 20 years ago. I believe it was called the Z40. Colt/CZ have had a long relationship even before the buyout.

I think there was another Colt/CZ collab back in the late 90s or so, but I could be misremembering.

 

[DocAwe]

I think there was another Colt/CZ collab back in the late 90s or so, but I could be misremembering.

IIRC Colt was going to bring in a rebranded CZ97.

 

[Spergichu]

It makes me wonder if they’ll sell the EBR as well. That’d be a neat gun to own

Just buy an M14 for your M14 and shuck it for an EBR chassis that you ordered months ago and costed more than the rifle itself. Don't think you can do the install yourself? Well just send it on down to Bubba & Fudd Gunsmithing and they'll take good care of ya fer an honest price.

All of this arguing... you all don't get it. If you're going to appendix carry you should only do so with a HK Mark 23. It has a manual safety for cocked and locked carry, but it also has a decocker and a DA trigger pull that is so heavy that you'd have to cram that mf into your temu holster like you're trying to break it to ND, and it's longer than your pants valuables so you would probably miss them if you did set it off. Plus it's a .45ACP manstopper, so if you do manage to blow your cock and balls off you won't have to worry about living without them.

HK Mark 23? Hmmmm.

 

[ifunny pride world wide]

I'm pretty sure that weird Galil looking one is basically a shrunk down Galil chambered in .30 Carbine that feeds from M1 and M2 Carbine magazines

It appears you are correct and I am wrong. Its an IMI product called the Magal

It makes me wonder if they’ll sell the EBR as well. That’d be a neat gun to own

Probably not likely. We gave a bunch of those to Ukraine in recent years. The Baltic states have gotten some too IIRC. The M14 is also a pain in the dick to accurize as others have said

 

[The Dude]

It appears you are correct and I am wrong. Its an IMI product called the Magal
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Probably not likely. We gave a bunch of those to Ukraine in recent years. The Baltic states have gotten some too IIRC. The M14 is also a pain in the dick to accurize as others have said


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Part of the reason why the SEALs went with the 18.5" barrels for their Mk14s along with the SAGE EBR chassis: the shorter barrels were a heavier contour than the USGI 22" barrels normally on the M14, so they are much stiffer. The EBR chassis beds the rifle in two places: where the trigger group connects to the receiver, and there is a bedding block that replaces the original operating rod guide and bolts to the handguard/rail system with three large bolts. So the barreled action group is bedded front and rear in the chassis, and coupled with the stiffer, heavier contoured 18.5" barrel it provides much superior accuracy over the standard 22" M14 in a USGI wood or fiberglass stock while still offering comparable range. And of course, the option of mounting optics much more easily compared to a stock M14 improves things even more.