Leaderboard

I received the following picture and text in an email this week. I thought it made some interesting points. However I also removed the trailing political commentary. My interest is in the rifle. A hundred and fourteen years ago, in 1907...our great grandparents were first able to buy the rifle pictured. The semi-auto Winchester Model 1907. This is a gun they could buy from a Sears catalogue and have delivered via US Post. It was/ is a semi-automatic, high powered centerfire rifle, with detachable, high capacity magazine. About 400,000 semi-automatic rifles were produced before WW2. Civilians had hundreds of thousands of these for 40 years, while US soldiers were still being issued old fashioned bolt action rifles. The 1907 fired just as fast as an AR15 or AK47 and the bullet (.351 Winchester) was actually larger than those fired by the more modern looking weapons. The ONLY functional difference between the 1907 and a controversial and much feared AR15 is the modern black plastic stock. The semi-auto so-called "assault rifle" is 114 years old. It isn't new in any way. The semi auto rifle was not a weapon of war. The government MADE IT a weapon of war 40 years after civilians had them. The semi-auto can be safely owned by civilians. The proof is that literally 3 generations of adults owned and used them responsibly and no one ever even noticed.

Magpul 10/30's in stock. https://magpul.com/pmag-10-30-ar-m4-gen-m3.html?mp_global_color=118

Surplus Ammo has 7.62x51 PPU Rangemaster 145gr NATO ammo in stock at a decent price. Shipping is a little high, but not terrible. They are also NJ friendly, no unnecessary documentation is required for rifle or shotgun ammo.

finger crossed this one rides like GME. I bought 100 shares of AMC, NOK and GPRO back in January when the Redditors blew up GME. toyed with selling them since they were either flatline or underwater, glad I didn't. If they ride I'll have a healthy fun gun money pot for 2022!!

I've also seen morons pay $1500 for a $750 rifle on GB. Oh, btw, this is not Gun Broker. Fewer morons here. I've seen this exact ammo sell for .24cpr not too long ago. RG was bargain basement range fodder that nobody wanted because it was Berdan primed and had a bi-metal magnetic jacket. It was priced much much lower than LC 7.62 NATO. Hence, the question about there being anything particularly special, like if it was collectible or match grade or something. You said it was very hard to find so I assumed there must be something special about this ammo, because 7.62 in general is not that hard to find today. I'm asking what is special about this ammo, that is all.

Suddenly the argument over whether to buy or build your "other" just sharply turned in a particular direction!

Is there something particularly special about this ammo? This is an honest question, I'm seeing the price of 7.62 NATO spec Boxer primed reloadable coming down to about 95 cpr and it's in stock in many places. I'm interested, but not at $1.20/rd.

I'LL jump on a battery operated vehicle when they're sold for the exact same pricing as their gasoline counterparts, and when they can be "refueled" exactly as conveniently as their gasoline counterparts. the instant torque would be incredible. but.....just not feasible for now. people keep forgetting that there were battery operated cars way back when we were first getting gasoline cars, and the gasoline cars won out. it wasn't the oil companies.....'cause there weren't any at that point. it was common sense.

They were banned because in 1967 some friendly African Americans were conducting a peaceful protest and they accidentally entered The Plainfield Machine Company and while there, borrowed 46 fully automatic M1s and handed them out to the crowd. They forgot to give them back and most of them are still missing to this day!