No biggie.
If you collect interesting Galil and IMI stuff, there was a big time collector in Northern Indiana who collected all sorts of Mil stuff from semis to select fires. He had tons of stuff from Kent Lomont (rest his soul), and I know he bought some left over stuff when Action Arms dropped the IMI made stuff due to long lead times for orders and bad political climate.
I know that is where the first gold plated Semi Galils, Mini Uzi carbines and special serial number Uzi carbines went to that were in the Action Arms/Action Manufacturing lobby. For some reason they liked to gold plate or chrome plate all their special weapons that had significant meaning.
I would have to look up his name, but he was up near Hammond and Michigan City and owned a Fedex subcontract shipping company and swam in cash. I bought some small stuff from Kent Lomont and Kent traded some of my gear to this guy so I would get what I wanted quickly.......the guy was a Navy vet from Vietnam and was collecting stuff he liked - which included the IMI stuff.
There are some really interesting Galil semis out there that were imported from the early 1980s until the door closed by Bush - to include some very early Galil receivers that were market tests that had the first style lightened receivers on the right side and scope mount cuts on the left.
Never got to look on the inside, but I think the chrome & gold plating was to cover a weld over job to convert a early full auto Galil to a semi..........wonder what that would be worth. I think one had ÄA"prefix and IMI suffix - so it probably never had a serial number from the factory.
There was also a Ballistics Connecticut registered Galil ARM that was converted for a Action Arms customer using parts that were provided by Action Arms to make it a "factory" like conversion. I was told by a friend in Homeland Security that some of the stuff was seized when the registered owner got hooked on pain meds and tried to blow himself up. That;s life in the naked city