The military bolt gun on the upper left of the long gun table has been identified as a KAR 1888 Mauser, a rare collectible.
Posted on 05/08/2021 6:03:52 AM PDT by marktwain
The military bolt gun on the upper left of the long gun table has been identified as a KAR 1888 Mauser, a rare collectible.
Waste of taxpayer money and likely waste of these guns. The local gun club should host this, buy them if the owner wants to part with them, then resale them to members or others to fund the gun club.
Did everyone involved have the appropriate Federal licenses? We’re NICS checks done?
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How many were stolen guns?
Can’t imagine how it survived this long in that condition.
My bet? It was shipped back from Germany during WWII by a soldier who confiscated it. And either the WWII vet died and it was sold or someone stole the gun from him or his estate.
I have a number of weapons my father shipped back from WWII.
The GI’s were allowed to take the weapons, properly crate them and the government would ship them home.
My father was an armorer during the war. He died in Early March of this year at 95.
I took a couple broken guns to a buyback in Baltimore a couple years ago. I paid $145 total for both firearms, the city paid me $300 which immediately went to an ammo purchase.
A guy in line ahead of me had a WWII Leichester machine gun. He got $500 but it was worth several thousand.
how much were they paying for each one?
There is some pricey stuff there.
From the article:
Robinson announced at his press conference that 63 guns were purchased, but city officials later clarified that 71 guns were collected at the event. The city only paid for 68 of the guns, as three of them were turned over without payment after funds had run out. Prices for the program were set at $150 for semi-automatic pistols, $125 for revolvers and $200 for semi-automatic rifles.
I’m sure there’s going to be a big drop in the murder rate in Pensacola this year. Yeah, right.
What..??? That's crazy talk!!!
This ineffective, feel-good, “just do something” optics display by cities in FL ought to rise on the DeSantis Hit List of things that need to stop. Especially when they take in valuable collector pieces to be turned into scrap.
That is the carbine version, with a short barrel, and no bayonet lug. If you look closely it has a rectangular opening at the bottom of the fixed magazine. Originally it was loaded with a five round en-block clip, that dropped out of the rectangular opening when the fifth round was chambered, so that a new en-block could be inserted immediately after firing the fifth round.
That system worked great. At the range. In the mud of the trenches, a large rectangular opening in the bottom of the fixed magazine, proved to be a spectacularly bad idea. The 1888s had already been converted to accept the five round stripper clips, and ammo, used by the 1898 Mauser. So the Germans often added a metal plate to the bottom of the 1888's fixed magazine, to keep the mud out.
that’d better not be a Browning Hi-power with the wooden grips right smack in the middle of the table
What’s the revolver at top, 4th from left on table? Can you ID it? A Colt Navy Pistol?
I have a shotgun given to me by my father in law 10 years ago, I’ve yet to use it. If the government wants to buy it (not “back” because they didn’t sell it to me in the first place), the asking price is $500,000
It is probably a modern reproduction of the Colt Navy.
I suspect they did buy the guns but are afraid that other enterprising individuals will easily make such primitive weapons in order to sell them at such “buybacks”. They’d make out like bandits and bankrupt the Leftist programs at the same time.
Homemade guns at "buyback" Jan, 2015
Homemade guns at "buyback" April, 2015
Homemade guns at "buyback" Aug, 2016
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