…not what you think. From a friend of mine who collects old woodworking tools and such:
I somehow managed to delete the email about this, but one of the woodworking guys attended an auction in PA a few months ago, filled with lots of heavy equipment. There was one big, very heavy boxed lot of these funky parts that nobody could figger out how to assemble. Except this old woodworking fart, of course, but he wasn’t tellin’. It comes up to bid, but nobody wants it 'cuz nobody knows what it is. Except this old fart, of course. He takes it home for like $5 but declines to identify the thing for auctioneer and other inquiring minds. He’s now the proud owner of a fully-operational 50-cal machine gun. It was packed in the original crate wraped in its original oil paper. I’m reminded of this because I saw the remnants of another machine gun (far far far too rusted to be a real threat) at Collingswood flea market this past Saturday
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That’s a great deal, but you can also just buy a new one if you have the bucks…I don’t know if they are fully automatic, but you can get a 50 cal tank killer down at your local gunshop… Very common hunting weapon, and the shooting ranges are full of them, Lots of legit uses there///(-;
Is that new, or is it just a formality to get one?? I think it was 60 minutes, or some similar show that did a piece on this, and they made it appear that anyone that can buy a normal gun, could get one of these if they wanted… I don’t remember the details…
They have a full auto M2 available to rent at my gun range if you so desire (and have a lot of money for ammunition). Since this is a private entity, apparently there are no restrictions on owning a full auto .50 in Arizona (beside the normal federal stamp requirement). I believe California passed some law restricting ownership of all 50’s, or maybe you can’t bring any new ones into the state. Something like that…as if they will save a lot of lives by forcing these 50 cal totin’ criminals to downgrade to .338 Lapua.
And yes, Monty, .50 cal rifles are frequently in use at my local range. There have been, as far as I’m aware, exactly no crimes committed with one. \
And before 9/11 planes were hijacked, not used as weapons…If I’m the head of security for this country against the terriorists, I run all the possible scenarios that might likely be used to reek havoc. We know about the planes, the unibomber showed us a few more, the fertilizer bomb at the federal building pointed out a flaw at the nurserys, and a 50 cal on a hill, near a fwy, looking down at gas trucks, would be up there on my list, along with shoulder fired missles under airport runways. It’s low tech terror, which is their MO… But there goes that slippery slope again, 50 cals it is… At least here where I live in CA, there is some common sense emerging…
It is the slippery slope, except you’ve taken the novel approach of starting at the bottom- box cutters and fertilizer bombs- and working your way back up to Guns You Don’t Like.
If the old fart didn’t tell anyone what it was then how does everyone else know that he bought a machine gun?
Hmm, now how would my woodworking friend have some email about another woodworking guy? I mean, there’s no online forum or anything for that sort of thing.
By the way, the “drive-by gloat” phrase referenced on the main forum originated in a woodworking net group.
