MagnumDweeb
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It's something that has been on my mind for some time now. I'm an NRA certified pistol instructor (I"ll go ahead and do the rifle one in December), worked for a gunsmith, do my own homebrews with a good deal of success. It looks like nowadays if you want an MG or FA you have to become and SOT3 looking to sell to law enforcement or military. There are plenty of Sig parts kits for rifles, and some Galil models, so it wouldn't be the greatest stretch when applying for an SOT3 to be interested in rebuilding the guns with the intent of marketing them to local law enforcement. A Sig 556 with FA option to the local police department perhaps.
But when I think about it all. It's just BS. I've looked at the 1934 and it wasn't entirely too bad per say. If you wanted an FA or MG you had to reigster it. Not ideal but not too bad. And from everything I've read we have the firearms industry to thank for the 1968 which banned or at the very least made foreign imports more difficult. And it looks like it later gave Clinton the ammo to start destroying Garands, 1911s, and .30 Carbines(oh yeah, every years hundreds of thousands of the guns are destroyed and salvaged for one-thousandths of their modern value) that many of us would gladly pay three or four hundred bucks for but for some reason the government just needs that two or three dollars for the steel. And then the hail mary late night bit added to the 1968 just made FA and MG ownership quite difficult and incredibly expensive.
I look at brpguns.com and wonder how they are still MGs, it looks like they just went and cranked out tons of receivers up to the last second. And if you read 'Shotgun News' you'll see the little brief case fully transferable MG so I do find myself at a loss.
Now some may think "why would you want an MG they are expensive to feed" or something else. Well how many of us would love to own a FA Thompson 1927 with a drum and once in a blue moon just unloading a drum on a target for fun. Or get a G3 that is FA capable to practice burst fire on targets. Of course we can't forget the AR-15 and emptying mags for fun. Admittedly if I ever got an FA it would only come out of the safe once or twice a year for some expensive wasteful fun.
Most of us have never seen FAs or MGs but given the idea of "death by a thousand cuts", if were Semis were to be banned, my grandkids might one day think "who needs Semi-autos, bolt-actions are perfectly fine for shooting practice, I just pick up my one rifle from the government administrated office two times a year" I realize that's a bit off the wall but a gentleman I know told me that in the fifties when his dad brought home a Thompson he couldn't wait for the day he could get one, and then 1968 hit (he was nineteen 1968 he told me) and that idea virtuallly disappeared and by the time he could really afford one 1986 came along and he just threw his hands up(his older brother got the Thompson). Even though the guy owns his own construction company, over five million dollars in real estate, a few race hourses, and number of bars and such, he can't muster the reasoning to pay bookoo bucks for one of the authentic thompsons, and the idea of getting one of the faux brpguns.com thompsons he just didn't like.
I'll admit I'd like one of the IMI UZIs going around, 9mm makes it affordable to feed and some can be found for less than 6k. Granted I'm years from getting one (still in law school, businesses and day trading are only bringing in about fifteen hundred a month), and I'll probably wrestle with the idea of why I should get one when there are so many other expenses in life. I went ahead and started an FA fund though, when all the bills are paid off ahead of time, and savings are good and growing, all my loose change and singles get stashed and whenever i have surprise earnings, half will go into it.
But I hope when I have my own house to build a few gatlings for myself(those aren't FA or MG) just for the challenge, granted I'll have a few lathes, mills, and variety of other tools.
Anyone else got thoughts on FAs, and what they would like i.e. M16s, STG 44s(they are 7.62x33s but still), DP28s, 1919s, BARs, Machine Pistols (honestly a Skorpion with a drum mag and shoulder stock would be awesome).
But when I think about it all. It's just BS. I've looked at the 1934 and it wasn't entirely too bad per say. If you wanted an FA or MG you had to reigster it. Not ideal but not too bad. And from everything I've read we have the firearms industry to thank for the 1968 which banned or at the very least made foreign imports more difficult. And it looks like it later gave Clinton the ammo to start destroying Garands, 1911s, and .30 Carbines(oh yeah, every years hundreds of thousands of the guns are destroyed and salvaged for one-thousandths of their modern value) that many of us would gladly pay three or four hundred bucks for but for some reason the government just needs that two or three dollars for the steel. And then the hail mary late night bit added to the 1968 just made FA and MG ownership quite difficult and incredibly expensive.
I look at brpguns.com and wonder how they are still MGs, it looks like they just went and cranked out tons of receivers up to the last second. And if you read 'Shotgun News' you'll see the little brief case fully transferable MG so I do find myself at a loss.
Now some may think "why would you want an MG they are expensive to feed" or something else. Well how many of us would love to own a FA Thompson 1927 with a drum and once in a blue moon just unloading a drum on a target for fun. Or get a G3 that is FA capable to practice burst fire on targets. Of course we can't forget the AR-15 and emptying mags for fun. Admittedly if I ever got an FA it would only come out of the safe once or twice a year for some expensive wasteful fun.
Most of us have never seen FAs or MGs but given the idea of "death by a thousand cuts", if were Semis were to be banned, my grandkids might one day think "who needs Semi-autos, bolt-actions are perfectly fine for shooting practice, I just pick up my one rifle from the government administrated office two times a year" I realize that's a bit off the wall but a gentleman I know told me that in the fifties when his dad brought home a Thompson he couldn't wait for the day he could get one, and then 1968 hit (he was nineteen 1968 he told me) and that idea virtuallly disappeared and by the time he could really afford one 1986 came along and he just threw his hands up(his older brother got the Thompson). Even though the guy owns his own construction company, over five million dollars in real estate, a few race hourses, and number of bars and such, he can't muster the reasoning to pay bookoo bucks for one of the authentic thompsons, and the idea of getting one of the faux brpguns.com thompsons he just didn't like.
I'll admit I'd like one of the IMI UZIs going around, 9mm makes it affordable to feed and some can be found for less than 6k. Granted I'm years from getting one (still in law school, businesses and day trading are only bringing in about fifteen hundred a month), and I'll probably wrestle with the idea of why I should get one when there are so many other expenses in life. I went ahead and started an FA fund though, when all the bills are paid off ahead of time, and savings are good and growing, all my loose change and singles get stashed and whenever i have surprise earnings, half will go into it.
But I hope when I have my own house to build a few gatlings for myself(those aren't FA or MG) just for the challenge, granted I'll have a few lathes, mills, and variety of other tools.
Anyone else got thoughts on FAs, and what they would like i.e. M16s, STG 44s(they are 7.62x33s but still), DP28s, 1919s, BARs, Machine Pistols (honestly a Skorpion with a drum mag and shoulder stock would be awesome).
He took a few steps backwards and just barely got off the trigger in time. He handed the gun back to me and said "Thanks, but no thanks..." 
