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Posted: 8/2/2022 3:26:52 PM EDT
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I was...........................................
Wait, Never..... I have the terminally Poors... |
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Posted: 8/2/2022 3:29:35 PM EDT
[#2]
22
Bought a registered MkII Sten tube from the SOT I worked for while I was in college ...... $275.00. He even helped me weld it up RIP Howard |
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Posted: 8/2/2022 3:31:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was........................................... Wait, Never..... I have the terminally Poors... Same. |
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Posted: 8/2/2022 3:46:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was........................................... Wait, Never..... I have the terminally Poors... This. I almost got a Reising M50 late last year but he wanted too much. |
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Posted: 8/2/2022 3:53:21 PM EDT
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I was 29 when I bought my first a RDIAS for $695 in 1994. Traded it for a Swedish K years later. Still have the K.
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Posted: 8/2/2022 4:45:06 PM EDT
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I don't remember the exact date but was around 23 when I bought my first one. M11/9 for about $1000 from a guy in Houston 20+ years ago and still have it.
Once I made the deal for the gun I remember it taking quite some time to figure out how to even get a blank ATF Form 4 (that I eventually took to a place where you could rent time on a typewriter to fill it out), how to get a CLEO signature in Austin at the time, paying somebody to do the fingerprint cards, get it all packaged up and mailed off. There was limited NFA "how to" information on the internet like there is today with downloadable PDFs of the forms, etc. Thankfully, there was an old FFL/SOT dealer in Austin at the time who helped give me free advice on how to get a copies of the paperwork I needed to fill out, who to talk to about requesting a Sheriff CLEO signature, etc. even though the transfer had nothing to do with him. I still have memories of driving to Houston to pick it up, taking it to the old range in the Sam Houston National Forest and shooting half a dozen mags through it in stock form with the OEM wire stock and canvas front strap. The shooting experience was both terrible and exciting at the same time. |
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Posted: 8/2/2022 5:00:32 PM EDT
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Mine, also, was an M11/9. I believe it was in '87, so I was 23. The bug hit me hard! Wasn't all that long before I got my FFL and paid my SOT. I believe that M11/9 was the only MG I went through another dealer for. All the rest were inventory. :-)
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Posted: 8/2/2022 8:50:05 PM EDT
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I want to say 28. It was only a couple years ago!
This is an expensive game. I burn so much ammo! |
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Posted: 8/2/2022 10:28:57 PM EDT
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Early 40’s a few years ago.
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Posted: 8/3/2022 9:09:11 AM EDT
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24. Colt M16a1 ($7000) and Vector full-size UZI ($3450). It was 2001.
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Posted: 8/3/2022 4:24:41 PM EDT
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I was 28 when I got my FFL and C3. Jumped right into it and bought 10 Fleming sears from LMO for $3,750.00. Sold 5 right away for $550.00 each, nice little profit. Now 30 years later I'm down to 1 sear but have a Colt M-16A1, Saco M60 and a buch of sub guns and a bakers dozen cans... Not to bad!
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Posted: 8/3/2022 6:32:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was 28 when I got my FFL and C3. Jumped right into it and bought 10 Fleming sears from LMO for $3,750.00. Sold 5 right away for $550.00 each, nice little profit. Now 30 years later I'm down to 1 sear but have a Colt M-16A1, Saco M60 and a buch of sub guns and a bakers dozen cans... Not to bad! Nice! Sadly, all my MGs are long gone. Did much business with Dan when he lived up here. He was very helpful in my going 07/02 (still have my Machine Gun Dealer's Bible kicking around somewhere). Transferred many DIASs and Lightning Links BITD. |
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Posted: 8/3/2022 8:20:41 PM EDT
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I was 44, in 2004 and it was a Colt M16 in the 9,000,000 serial number range. Got a special deal from a friend for $5,300.00. The gun only had a couple of hundred rounds through it. The day after I picked it up (in state transfer), I striped the lower and packaged the parts set away. I remember holding that peice of anodized aluminum and thinking, how can this have a market value of $10,000.00?
I wanted more versatility (MGI modular lower) so I bought a LL and a DIAS. Sold off the Colt gun for $13,000.00 in 2008. It still dumbfounds me that the original sales price of the DIAS is 1,000 times less than current market value. I did the machinegun collection thing backwards. I didn't buy a Mac style RR until after I owned a DIAS and a Fleming HK sear with 20 different host configurations. Scott |
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Posted: 8/4/2022 5:07:33 AM EDT
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Bought an IMI Model B Uzi that was properly converted in 2012 for $6,850. I was 36. Have since then bought an Olympic M16, Valmet M78 7.62x39 & Norrell 10/22.
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Posted: 8/4/2022 7:34:57 AM EDT
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29yrs old - Powder Springs MAC10/45 with matching suppressor in 1977.
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Posted: 8/4/2022 7:57:08 AM EDT
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38
Paid 1500 for a powder springs M10 came with a spare box of 9mm stuff i didn't want or need sold it all but the OEM M10 45 stuff. Would have two more Mgs after that both sold. Kept the M10 and now have : Flemming 22 upper. OEM 45 upper Lage 10/31 9mm upper And just got my 556 Lage 10/15 upper this week. And a old skewl 2 stage can. Along with a can for every upper for it. Over a dozen stamps now. While I have the loot for another MG the only one I really put any thought into is another M10 so I'm not swapping uppers so much. Bought it cause its a iconic 80s movie gun, kept it cause its turned out to be a poor man's H&K sear-M16 DIAS. Funny thing is i just paid over 2x the price for one upper ( Lage 10/15 556 ) then I did the gun with a pile of extras. |
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Posted: 8/4/2022 11:03:17 AM EDT
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28 but it's a post sample, as are all the MGs I own.
FN F2000 Tactical for $1,100.  Attached FileI built my first MG when I was 22 and it was one of those $80 polymer G3 SEF trigger groups I registered on Form 2. Used it to convert my 9mm SW5 and a G3 that I had built from an FMP parts kit in gunsmithing school. Here's my friend's 10 year old son shooting it as his first full auto experience. It has brought joy to many people.   Dane shooting the MP5 Later I got more hosts, of course. (G3 kit build at top.)  Attached FileAt 24 I completed a DIAS that a local CNC place did most of the milling on. $100  Attached FileThat's been great fun.   XM16 (Colt 604) AR-15 clone |
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Posted: 8/4/2022 4:39:13 PM EDT
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47 with a M11/9 just recently after moving to a state that allows them. After getting this one, I got the bug to maybe get an AR platform one. But now with Bruen coming down, I think there might actually be a chance that we get the registry back open again and we won't have to pay nutso prices to form 1 something we already own. So many have said that machine guns get boring fast, but I've already put almost 1k rounds through mine, unloading it almost as fast as my Dillon 750 can make them. I'm not sure why blasting at a big steel target would get old.
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Posted: 8/4/2022 4:42:38 PM EDT
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I'm poor
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Posted: 8/4/2022 5:05:06 PM EDT
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I'll let you know.
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Posted: 8/4/2022 8:48:12 PM EDT
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22 for my first full auto a Premay sample M50 Madsen (Last November) for 4800
Just sold it for 4,500 as the condition wasn’t great and I needed the money to make up the difference in a M50 Reising I just bought. Also just bought a transferable sten gun aswell. First NFA item was a M2 60MM mortar I formed 1 back in May of 2020. Ironically it was a month before my 21st birthday when my approval came through. I had a legal registered mortar a month before I was old enough to legally buy a handgun from a dealer lol. |
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Posted: 8/6/2022 11:35:29 AM EDT
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33 yrs. for my 1st.
PS M10/45 with old school SWD can. Still have both of them. And the sickness began from there..... |
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Posted: 8/7/2022 2:10:05 PM EDT
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Ages are younger than i expected. Probably due some to “cheaper” prices in the past vs today.
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Posted: 8/7/2022 3:39:43 PM EDT
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26 or 27 - M16
First kid was on the way, I knew it was now or never. |
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Posted: 8/9/2022 6:09:17 AM EDT
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I was 38. My first MG was a Sterling mk5. My second was a M16a2. Both are gone now, but I have others.
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Posted: 8/9/2022 6:24:58 AM EDT
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I was about 16 yo hanging out at my dads office (highway patrol LT.) and some old lady came in with a Sten MG her husband brought back from the war, he recently died and said she didnt want it... well anyways she went home with some cool highway patrol coffee mugs and fake badge and shit and we went home with a .... smile on our face...
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Posted: 8/10/2022 12:42:32 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was........................................... Wait, Never..... I have the terminally Poors... Bought my M16 with a loan  Poors and poor decision making unite
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Posted: 8/10/2022 12:59:23 PM EDT
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Responsible party, 21 1992.
Firing it before as an employee of my uncles SOT shop 13. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 10:49:36 PM EDT
[#29]
I was 24.
My brother dropped the form 4 for his Uzi in the mail on his 21st birthday, along with his CHL application. |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 9:14:17 AM EDT
[#30]
I was 25 when I bought my first M16 and then a Vector Uzi a few weeks later.
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Posted: 8/21/2022 10:57:08 AM EDT
[#31]
Bought mine in my late 20s. Was the perfect combination of dual incomes and no kids so spending thousands of dollars on a toy was no big deal. Now spending more than a couple hundred dollars on something that’s not for the kids is a divorce-able offense lol. Glad I bought them when I did, won’t have an opportunity to do something like that again until the kids are out of college. Highly recommend it if you can afford one, even if it’s a MAC, just fun to have a full auto sitting in the safe. Just be warned, it will I instantly be your favorite firearm and shooting semi-auto just doesn’t seem exciting anymore.
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Posted: 8/21/2022 2:01:54 PM EDT
[#32]
Mid-20s.
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Posted: 8/21/2022 2:04:18 PM EDT
[#33]
I am in MN.... Without an SOT, I will never afford a pre-68 class 3.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 3:16:25 PM EDT
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First thing I did when I turned 21. Frankford Arsenal XM-177e2. 1982. 600.00. Still shoot it regularly. Lots of fun uppers available for it which is why I chose the platform. Had no idea it would still be relevant.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 3:55:21 PM EDT
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Bought a Colt M16A1 at age 39, still have it along with several others
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Posted: 8/26/2022 7:36:00 AM EDT
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I was 33, or 34.
I bought my M50 Reising for $645.00. I still have it. |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 5:55:59 PM EDT
[#37]
38, m11 nine
39, m16a2 |
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Posted: 8/26/2022 6:23:34 PM EDT
[#38]
I would like to get a tommy gun or a MAC-10
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Posted: 9/5/2022 11:07:35 AM EDT
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45, so 11 years ago.
MAC-11 in 380ACP |
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Posted: 9/6/2022 10:12:03 AM EDT
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27 an SW76. Traded a Steyr Aug for it.
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Posted: 9/6/2022 2:39:00 PM EDT
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I think 28 , Sten mk2. I now have a Sten MK 6
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Posted: 9/13/2022 4:36:39 PM EDT
[#42]
31, but I never took actually owned nor possessed it I sold it a month later for a grand profit. Form 4 was cancelled. I became an SOT. I can make m16s for less than 40 bucks.
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Posted: 9/16/2022 12:46:43 AM EDT
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31.
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Posted: 9/16/2022 12:57:22 AM EDT
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30 if someone buys me one today
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Posted: 9/16/2022 7:20:38 AM EDT
[#45]
I was 21 or 22.
M11/9 was my 1st at $800 |
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Posted: 9/16/2022 7:49:35 AM EDT
[#46]
Mid 30's, M16 RR conversion.
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Posted: 9/17/2022 11:17:08 PM EDT
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32. Bought a M11/9 13 years ago for $2,900 NIB. Just had first kid and I knew it was now or way later. Buy your toys before kids if your just a regular joe like me, not some super wealthy dude.
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Posted: 9/17/2022 11:45:49 PM EDT
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Dad bought a Ruger AC-556 in the mid ‘80s. Think he let me shoot it for the first time when I was about 13 or so.
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Posted: 9/18/2022 12:04:23 AM EDT
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Whatever happened to... I think it was CollgeBoy or something like that... here? He had like a million FAs.
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Posted: 9/18/2022 6:31:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Whatever happened to... I think it was CollgeBoy or something like that... here? He had like a million FAs. |
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