[tet68]

a gold-plated MP-5 fitted with a silencer in a presentation case.

I'd be willing to bet this one doesn't get destroyed.
A collectors dream, maybe we should see that the Sec.Def gets that one. A token of our esteem.

[George W. Bush]

A collectors dream, maybe we should see that the Sec.Def gets that one. A token of our esteem.

Dude, we're not looters.

All this crap needs to be gathered up and shipped to the West to be sold at auction, proceeds going to humanitarian relief in Iraq.

It would be kind of nice to see some of it on eBay.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"a gold-plated MP-5 fitted with a silencer in a presentation case. I'd be willing to bet this one doesn't get destroyed.
A collectors dream, maybe we should see that the Sec.Def gets that one. A token of our esteem."

Actually, you could buy that new for less than $2000, and have some hack plate it for a hair more. A good gun, but it is just a mass-produced, sheet-metal gun that keeps rolling off the line to this day. Unless it was transferrable to US civilians, it is the type that police departments can hardly give away when some new guns catch their eyes.

The gold plating probably detracts from its value, which is signifcant only if the collector market valued it having come from this source (which has nothing to do with the gun itself.)

[SuziQ]

A collectors dream, maybe we should see that the Sec.Def gets that one. A token of our esteem

Or in the George W. Bush Presidential Library.