Posted on 11/25/2011 9:33:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
At least someone is making money in these difficult times. Arms dealers in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley are making out like, well, bandits as unrest in Syria sends black market gun prices through the roof says this story in Lebanon’s Daily Star. Rocket grenade launchers appear to be the hottest investment grade item, with prices more than sextupling from $400 to $2500 in recent months. Kalashnikovs and M16s are also up sharply, with 75 percent appreciation on the Russian guns and 100 percent on the US model.
Perhaps more investments in Lebanese arms dealer funds could rescue US state and municipal pension funds; those are the kind of returns states like New York, Illinois, California and Rhode Island need to avoid massive service and benefit cuts in the years ahead.
But what this news really means, of course, is that more and more people in Syria and Lebanon are preparing for all out civil war. Religious and ethnic divides half forgotten during the long decades when the dictatorship was secure are now beginning to revive as the Assad clan looks weak.
This is the pattern I saw at work in Yugoslavia and the Caucasus twenty years ago as ethnic groups geared up to butcher their neighbors and drive them from their homes; I will never forget the night a Georgian poet asked me how much guns cost on the Istanbul black market; he was arming himself against what he called the “Abkhazian menace.”
I made a note to myself at that time: when poets buy guns, tourist season is over. They are buying them now in Damascus; something wicked this way comes.
Here in Central Missouri they do.
That's unfortunate to say the least.
I lost nine in a boat when the boat sunk while loading my guns into it.
Luckily I didn't board yet.
The prices of guns and ammo went sky high when Obama was elected. They have since gone back down.
This is an indication that the people who were buying in 2008 have decided they finally have enough guns and ammo. This may be a troubling realization to some Leftists.
Load for high pressure rounds like 460 S&W Magnum require a good quality copper jacket. Using "plated" bullets with the ported barrels will often sling a bunch of the plating out of the ports and onto your face. The "savings" may end up wiped out at the emergency room.
How much did Colt and Remington donate to him last time around;-?
Come now. Surely those will be like pennies, .38 wadcutter like quarters, and NATO rounds with soft points will be the new dollar.
Expecting zombies? Yes. Expecting Cybermen? Go with the gold...
Maybe some of those guns lost in boating accidents haven’t rusted over yet, and can be got with a fishing net.
Trust me. I’m an ATF agent, and only I should have a gun.
That 9.5” long-barreled 22 is a Colt Buntline Scout. Of course some Buntline purists think to deserve the name a revolver should have at least a 12-inch tube but Colt even used “Buntline” for some of their 7.5 inch Frontiers.
That Colt sure is fun though.
That Tokie-looking auto is actually a John Browning-designed Colt 32 hammerless in 32 ACP (7.65). It was made in 1926 but its my wife’s favorite.
Where's your CZ82? Gotta have one of those!
:)
That’s a shame. I lost mine in a rafting accident. Deep, deep water, too.
"There was a terrible fire..."
Yep.
This is an indication that the people who were buying in 2008 have decided they finally have enough guns and ammo. This may be a troubling realization to some Leftists.
unpossible.
Yeah, but most people think that Buntline means a 12 inch barrel. Wyatt Earp and all that you know. After I looked at your picture again I knew that was not a Ruger, why I thought it was in the first place is because I am a Ruger kind of guy and always think Ruger at first when I see a wheel gun that looks similar.
Oh yes. You are from the govt. I believe you. Please do something about all these nasty gun owners.
As my retired Marine Sergeant friend said to me, “You’re going to run out of luck before you run out of ammo”.
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