In 1993 I was talking with a dealer at a gun show and they mentioned that they had a new-in-box IMI Galil. Being new to firearms and not knowing too much about bans or assault rifle values I thought the $1,200 price tag was for a pre-ban model. It turned out to be a post-ban thumbhole-stocked abortion. I bought it anyway. The lack of a flash hider of course meant that it put out a three-foot flame with every shot. The thumbhole stock attached with a long bolt through the stock that kept loosening. You had to access the bolt through a concealed hole in the rubber butt plate, which of course meant that every time you tightened it up you made that access hole a little more ragged.
Still, I liked it well enough that I kept it for a couple of years until I traded it for something else.
If I had held onto that weapon I certainly would have unbanned it.
I have never seen another genuine IMI Galil of any form in person in the last 20+ years.
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Originally Posted by HKGuns
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