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Want to bet that they are all 'Felons in Possession'? Kind of makes other points moot.

Pure pose. He's got lots of room. I'm more interested in the Soviet kids doing final assembly of PPD40 submachine guns! Cool photo.

Interesting information on expected life. For comparison, my CZ75b has over 55000 rounds through it. I've replaced a firing pin, slide stop, and recoil spring. Barrel looks like it's about ready to be replaced. I'm not a fan of the 40 short and weak. All the penetration of the 45, and stopping power of the 9mm. And newer 40 is even downloaded from the earlier ammo. I do like that most 40 pistols can be easily changed to .357Sig. My Glock 23 has that setup, and was cheaper than buying a Glock 32.

This is Independence Day, which falls on July 4th. We are not celebrating a date. We are celebrating our creation as a new country, separate from Great Britain. Our forefathers fought TWO wars to create and retain that independence. Both took an enormous toll in lives and property on a sparse and relatively poor population. Appropriate movies for today are: April Morning, 1776, Mister Smith goes to Washington, The Patriot, and the HBO series on John Adams. I would ignore the Disney movie 'Hamilton' as it is politically-correct, revisionist history. There have been some excellent documentaries about the American Revolution. If you can find the one History Channel did in the '90's, it was pretty good without bowing to the PC crowd. There is an absolutely awful movie called Taking Liberty that was a pilot for a proposed TV series. It is notable only as it has David Ogden Stiers as Benjamin Franklin, the adorable, beautiful, and sweet Sophie Ward (sigh) as the female lead, and a a couple of amusing scenes involving a handsome and dashing British Highland soldier (me).

Trying to reason with that kind of person is useless. Like wrestling with a pig; 'you get tired and muddy and the pig has fun'. A LONG time ago I had a friend who owned a successful sandwich shop. Difficult customers got a dab of Wasabi on their BLT or Monte Cristo. Really difficult customers were refused service and shown the door. You probably couldn't get away with that today.

I've had a C&R for well over 20 years. I've never had a problem shipping or receiving. A C&R license IS a category of Federal Firearms License. And FEDEX and UPS ship handguns 2nd Day Air at much lower cost than overnight.

Czech VZ26 Light machine gun. Later refined into the British BREN gun.

WW1 German anti-tank rifle - T-Gewehr

In an earlier era, right after Obama was sworn in, I bought some WWB 9mm. Several rounds in the box had primers that were not seated properly, one had actually fallen out and spilled powder in the box. I contacted Olin and let them know the lot number. They replaced the box. I suspect that when they were running production full-blast, they may have had new folks or less attention to quality. Right now, they are again behind demand. So, it could be the same issue. I'm pretty well stocked with 9mm right now, so I have not bought any in the past 6 months. But I have fired many thousands of rounds of 9mm WWB and that one time is the only time I had any issues.

Len Savage at Historic Arms in Georgia has done some full and also some semi MG42 builds. Because the receiver is one long piece of stamped steel, it is a real bear to weld together sections and get it perfectly straight. And if it is not straight and correct, it will be a 24 pound manually-operated rifle. Many years ago I had a friend who would let me fire his WWII MG42 quite a bit. I also had the opportunity to get some instruction on the MG-3. Properly handled, it is a devastating Light/Medium machine gun. In the hands of your average Snuffy, it will just waste ammo quickly. The MG-3 and the MAG58/M240 are the best LMGs around. Bar none!!!

Nope. Just Albatros!

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Try looking for 'Raquel Welch' https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/File:RaquelWelchgun1.jpg

Is that a Jaguar patrol car?

Wow!! and I thought that popping clay pigeons at 100 yards with my CZ75 was pretty fancy! Talk about making the rest of us feel humble!

I saw him perform in Atlanta in 1998. Still gave an amazingly energetic performance!! Great concert from a great showman and artist.

The original Nock Volley gun had seven .50 barrels. An excellent reproduction can be seen used in the Sharp's Rifles series on BBC. The one in this photo is obviously a Hollywood creation! It looks like they took seven 12guage shotgun barrels and banded them together.

It do not believe it is a good idea to dry-fire a .22 or any other rimfire. The problem is that without a cartridge or snap-cap, the firing pin will always be striking the barrel next to the chamber. I have a beautiful Remington 12 that some fool dry fired until he broke the firing pin. I bought it for a song because it was broken and he didn't know why it a) would not fire, and b) had difficulty chambering and extracting cartridges. Firing pins for these are not cheap, but I had a spare. and a few minutes with a chamber reamer fixed the deformed chamber rim peening. As far as the Rem 597 goes, folks who have them seem to like them. All .22 semi-autos are ammo-sensitive since the round has so little extra energy to operate the action. Buy a box of whatever you want and try it out. A few seconds of Google-foo shows a variety of 30-rd mags. And Pro-mag makes a 70-rd drum.

Definitely an M1 Garand. Springfield Armory built in 1952.

I have one of the Crossman M4 BB guns. The magazine only holds 25 BBs, and I got six magazine loads with one set of two CO2 cartridges. Then I let it sit for several weeks and the CO2 had leaked out. The next time I fired it, I got a phone call after only 3 magazines, so I have not yet had a chance to actually shoot the CO2 cartridges to where they run out. But, it's safe to say that you can get 150 or more BBs out of one set of CO2 cartridges. My target is set up 20 yards out in the back yard and the BBs are on-target and make a nice 'plink' sound on the steel.

Farmers and tradesmen in small towns north of Boston faced off against the world's best soldiers who were sent to confiscate a couple of small cannons and other weapons. The movie 'April Morning' is worth watching, if you can find it.

Rifle: Remington Nylon66. Light, excellent handling, and accurate. Still my favorite .22 rifle after all these years. A close 2nd would be my grandfather's Marlin 39a. Pistol: High Standard Victor. Much more accurate than I am, reliable, and points perfectly for me. My 2nd choice would the Colt Trooper III .22. A true work of art and the smooth action is still amazes me.

The more recent production R51 is actually supposed to be a nice little 9mm. If so, it's a shame the Remington released a piece of junk originally and ruined its reputation. I'm always amazed when manufacturers decide to go into full production with a product with known issues.

US ammo manufacturers are mostly going t be affected by the higher cost of raw materials. Copper used for cases and bullet jackets has seen a large jump. Aside from that, common loads are unlikely to stay scarce for long simply because manufacturers will produce those to meet demand first. If you were that once a year (or every two years) production of Remington .250 Savage, you may have a long wait. I've heard that the Winchester plant in Mississippi is running full blast. It is mostly automated and able to encourage 'social distancing' while still staying in high production mode. Loads like Winchester 9mm 'White Box' (made in Israel) and Remington/UMC 'Value Packs' .380/9mm/.45 (made in Mexico) may be affected due to the slow down in transportation from outside the country. Brands like Barnaul and Wolf bring in a freighter load at a time. For them it depends how much inventory is already here and how much is already in the pipeline. The biggest factor is how long the hysteria continues. The sooner folks get over it, the sooner we will see a return to normalcy. Our mainstream media is very good at drumming up hysteria as that is what they are selling.

"Glock 45 in 9mm". Seriously? Who was the non-genius in Glock's marketing department who decided on THAT model number for their latest 9mm? Talk about confusing people. "Hey you want to see my new Glock 45?" "Sure! So is it the new model 36 or a 21?" "No, it's a 45." "OK. But which 45 is it?" "It's not a .45, it's a 9mm." "Dude. This is just insane. Don't you know which Glock you got?"