I love guns as much as anyone here, but why M2, why? You are making us poor guys very very Mak-jealous!!!
Actually I have one more NIB Russian Mak that's not in the picture.
Believe it or not, I am not a Makarov collector. I'm just a sucker for a good buy. The Mak is such a great gun and for years sold for such a low price that almost every time I ran across a decent price I'd buy it. From my first one, the East German, I said this is over a $400 gun, selling for $100.
I've owned twenty some. It seemed that in the early days every time someone shot my Mak they had to have one, so I'd usually sell them the gun (for what I paid for it) and I'd end up buying a couple more.
You should have heard me trying to explain to my Wife why I "needed" six Makarovs.
Funny thing about the Makarov. Many owners buy another one or two after they buy their first one.
A few years ago I gave a LNIB Bulgarian Mak to a friend. Shortly after he bought two more. One a Russian .380.
I sold one to a friend's Wife (for what I paid for it) after she used the Makarov to beat everyone in her concealed carry class shooting qualification . She told her husband, "This is my Makarov. You get your own."
And he did.
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