Originally Posted by
Firefly
Yep. It wasn’t gonna last forever. Lots of Eastern block countries dumping AK74 parts, Latin countries dumping FALs, Germans dumping UZIs, and selling off so much ammo. The real heyday was juuust before 9/11. No Bush Barrel Ban, ammo was crazy cheap, and I mean lotsa places were dumping pistols. Walther P1s were cheaper than hi points.
It was just a different time. Now you have African countries and Latin Countries with more modern stuff.
It ain’t coming back
You're not kidding. Like New G3 parts kits. Problem was, when they market was flooded with FAL kits for $60 almost nobody made a US receiver. Century pretty much started it off with those horrible Federal Arms receiver builds, but once there were quality receivers being made or imported, then the parts kits dried up or had already dried up.
I remember I bought an Group Industries Uzi receiver and a FN Uzi parts kit for about $120 all in. From there is was pretty much legos and you just put it together. But we were still under the specter of the 1994 AW ban and everyone was worried about compliance. Really brave people bought Steyr and SIG "replacement receivers" from CCF along with parts kits and built guns.
Then there were the HK P7s for $499 and the few German Lugers that came in with all those P-38s for something insane like $399. That was really our "man I wish I woulda bought one of those..." times just like our parents reminisced about being able to walk into a department store in the 60s and paying $20 for 1917 Enfields or 03 Springfields.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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