New C&R firearms on the horizon?

[adam h]

Well, maybe I'm a day late and a dollar short, but I just requested my C&R License application. I was lucky and got in on the inexpensive Yugo M-48's a few years ago, I also picked up a Yugo SKS when they were all over and inexpensive. As far as I can tell, the hot C&R item right now is the Mosin Nagant 91/30, incidentally the rifle that has prompted me to get my C&R now. So I guess my question is this, are the Nagants available now pretty much the last of the "cheap" soviet / com bloc guns? Anybody see something else on the horizon? In other words, what guns do I have to look forward to as a new C&R holder?

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Its impossible to know about imports... I am sure there are still warehouses full of surplus soviet bloc guns out there... and who knows when someone will find a warehouse full of M1 Carbines like the CMP has been selling lately.

Remember also, as the years go by, more and more guns become C&R. Anything made in 1958 or earlier is C&R now.

 

[adam h]

I want to see another big shipment of SKSs come over! I guess I'm just wondering if the fact that they were here and now they're not means that they have all been sold.

 

[zoom6zoom]

SOG has Romanian SKS's available (late 50's dated).

Most military arms after the SKS are going to be select fire, which will never get imported, maybe not even as parts kits.

 

[expvideo]

Well, maybe I'm a day late and a dollar short, but I just requested my C&R License application. I was lucky and got in on the inexpensive Yugo M-48's a few years ago, I also picked up a Yugo SKS when they were all over and inexpensive. As far as I can tell, the hot C&R item right now is the Mosin Nagant 91/30, incidentally the rifle that has prompted me to get my C&R now. So I guess my question is this, are the Nagants available now pretty much the last of the "cheap" soviet / com bloc guns? Anybody see something else on the horizon? In other words, what guns do I have to look forward to as a new C&R holder?

I doubt that the days of great deals are over. Far from it, I would think. Of course the gun shops will do anything to make you think otherwise to justify their prices.

I think that as the 5.45x39 round dries up a little bit, there will be some really cheap rifles. I don't think the 5.45x39 is going to disappear, but I think it might catch up with 7.62x39 eventually.

If there is a shortage of a certain kind of ammo, the guns that shoot that ammo are usually cheap. I don't think that will ever change.

A C&R goes back 50 years, and we are closely approaching the 1960's era guns. The only problem that we will have with C&R is that many milsurp guns from this point forward are select fire, and therefor controlled NFA items.

A lot more of the serial numbers of current C&R guns will be valid. For example, there are C&R eligible SKS rifles, but only the ones developed before 1959. I don't know when SKS production began or ended, so maybe that's not a good example. I guess a better example would be Walther PPKs. They've been in production since the 1940's, and every year more of them become C&R eligible.

I think the big excitement for C&R will be pistols from this point forward.