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Posted: 6/26/2026 6:27:09 PM EDT
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Have a chance to buy two sequentially serial numbered Reising M50 SMGs. 1942 production. Seller doesn’t want to separate them. Would you add ANY premium Dollar value for the consecutive serial numbers? Overall nice, original condition, with some rack dings after 80+ years. Thank you in advance for any comments. |
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Collectors will pay a premium. Personally, after having owned one, I wouldn’t buy a Reising in the first place unless the price made resale worthwhile. But if you like them, go for it. |
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Don’t particularly “like” them. I’ve shot a few and if the parts fit right and the gun is clean and lubed, they run right. Otherwise, not so much. Mags are insanely priced. I’d be buying these as an investment that I could shoot every once in a while, on nice days. I suspect the two I am looking at came out of a police armory where they sat for decades, only being handled to verify the serial/property numbers every once in a while. |
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Reisings can be fun. I don’t shoot mine all that often, but it runs well and I enjoy it. As you noted, mags are expensive. There is a guy selling a replacement mag well that takes the inexpensive Promag .45 Uzi mags. These actually run very well. To answer your question, I personally would not pay a premium for sequential serial numbers. It’s neat, but not something I would pay extra for. But I buy guns to shoot, not to collect. Ultimately it’s up to you whether it’s worth it or not. |
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Collectors definitely have a big throbbing phallus for sequentially serial numbered guns But I doubt that anybody would pay a premium for sequentially numbered reisings I actually really like reisings, but they are not a particularly strong collector item They are seen as a third tier weapon, Something that you would have seen in the hands of a guard at an engine plant in Michigan during World War 2 I don't think that the collector passion is strong enough with that particular gun to command any short of premium for sequential numbering Don't forget that collector value of anything that's collected comes from the imagination of the collector Without the imagination, a 1969 Dodge hemi charger is just an old car that handles badly and has tremendously bad gas mileage |
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Originally Posted By Makarov: Don't particularly "like" them. I've shot a few and if the parts fit right and the gun is clean and lubed, they run right. Otherwise, not so much. Mags are insanely priced. I'd be buying these as an investment that I could shoot every once in a while, on nice days. I suspect the two I am looking at came out of a police armory where they sat for decades, only being handled to verify the serial/property numbers every once in a while. |
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For the most part I would consider the lower price machine guns to be better investments than the higher priced ones Just because you have a larger Pool of buyers and it's easier for the price to increase It's a lot easier for a $7000 machine gun to go to 14000 than for a $40000 machine gun to go to 80000 That being said, the amount of money that you would spend on a reising is not important as an investment. It's not enough money to make a difference in your life in any way I would say that you should just get whatever gun appeals to you the most and forget about the investment aspect As far as investments go you should be putting 10% of your pay into your company 401k account. Put it in the S&P 500 index fund and never touch it and you'll be a millionaire at some point in the future |
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