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Posted: 8/29/2005 1:55:16 PM EDT
[#1]
Semi Auto FMAS
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Posted: 8/29/2005 1:56:04 PM EDT
[#2]
AR-50
I still pissed at myself. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 1:56:11 PM EDT
[#3]
Every "assault weapon" that I handled prior to 2000 and didn't buy.
It's a long list. They're all banned here now. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:00:17 PM EDT
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I was old enough to buy machineguns long before the 86 ban. I just kept putting it off. I kick myself every now and then when I think about it.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:00:23 PM EDT
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Back in 1989 my local dealer was trying to unload HK SP-89s for $400 each. He had 24 of them and was trying desperately to get rid of them.
Those little rigs today can bring over $3k each NIB. They are a perfect base for an MP5K conversion. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:01:51 PM EDT
[#6]
Full auto M-16 Carbine when my dad was a class III dealer and could get them for about $800.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:02:40 PM EDT
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FNC in .223.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:03:15 PM EDT
[#8]
USGI Winchester Garand at the CMP North Store about year and a half ago. Still get annoyed with myself over that one.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:03:25 PM EDT
[#9]
Specifically that I could have, but didn't -
Folding Galil Dragunov 
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:04:30 PM EDT
[#10]
Late 80's:
H&K 91 for $600 Colt AR-15A2 H-Bar for less than that Mid 90s: H&K SP-89 for $1200 @ Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly I think those are the biggies. Shooter |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:14:13 PM EDT
[#11]
Edit: I wasn't old enough to buy F/A's before the '86 ban.
But I kinda wish I had bought a Galil, too. Oh, and a FN FNC. It was the rifle Pachino use in "Heat" you know...  Scott |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:24:03 PM EDT
[#12]
Stock.
I wish I'd been more interested in investing when I was younger...a problem I am remedying now. Jim |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:24:24 PM EDT
[#13]
a SA M1 Garand - late 40's production (memory is fuzzy here but not a later production run), and the sucker had no handling marks, no wear and i swear it still had a perfect, like new barrel.
off the gunshow table - $400.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:26:20 PM EDT
[#14]
 A friend of mine got a Class III M16 stripped lower for about 3k a few years ago and made out like a bandit in hindsight......... Wish I wasnt active duty military - too much hassle with Title II weapons :( |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:27:27 PM EDT
[#15]
Steyr AUG @ $700.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:28:01 PM EDT
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A Daewoo DR200 for $400.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:34:15 PM EDT
[#17]
Slick black Belgium FN FAL. The real deal-mags-funky bayo-all the accessories-slick weapon-it molded to me when I sighted it in. I could feel the attraction, it wasn't a cold mixture of metal and plastic, it was warm and alive! I almost could not put her down. I heard a forlorn sigh when I left. That rifle haunts me to this day. I have damned myself by leaving her there. I have gone out many times, searching for her, my soul tormented by what might have been. To this day I still look, hoping to find her, feel her slick flank against my cheek, becoming one.
My time is running short now, body is giving up, but maybe the next shop... |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:35:48 PM EDT
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1. Any FA pre-86. I wouldn't be figuring out how to pay for my kids' college now, had I taken the plunge then.
2. Mod. '97 Trench Guns for $175 - $250 each ca. 1980.  The question is, "What are we missing right now?" |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:39:43 PM EDT
[#19]
Summer of 94'--right before the ban, I was an armorer for a dept., went to a LE supply store to pick some things up, and hanging on the wall were brand new Colt CAR's for $599---9mm and 5.56, no letterhead--over the counter to LE--only if I would have had a crystal ball.
ETA: 2-3 months later the price was double
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Posted: 8/29/2005 2:43:20 PM EDT
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Missed an Izzy Heavy Barrel FAL for $800. Went back the next day to get it and it was long gone.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:18:48 PM EDT
[#21]
G-43 $350 15 years ago before WWII re-enacting caught on.
Colt Delta H-Bar AR-15 Beretta AR-70 used for $600 Sometimes think I should have tried to track down some of the AKs that were brought back into the country after the first Gulf War.....IIRC, they were going for $500-$600. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:22:54 PM EDT
[#22]
back in 1982 when i had 30 grand and thought gee it would be great to by a case of m16s and ammo
my wife had a fit.............. should have dumped here sooner the new one is more understanding just to late on the sceen 
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:24:57 PM EDT
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DING DING DING.. I wish I bought one while they were still available in California and I had a chance to get some full capacity magazines. I bought an HK USP instead because I bought into the hype, spent 2 years trying to shoot that gun well and wound up ditching it in frustration. Also wish I bought an HK MK23 while it was available as an occasional range toy and collector's piece, can't get it in Ca. cause it's a freaking "assault weapon" with the threaded barrel. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:25:16 PM EDT
[#24]
full auto uzi uder the table for 300bucks
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:26:26 PM EDT
[#25]
.22 mag Automag for $200
DSA FAL Para Folder for $1100 |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:27:34 PM EDT
[#26]
I have that one. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:27:54 PM EDT
[#27]
You're kidding right? $300 and a good chance at fines and 10 years in FedPen. Yeah, sounds like a real shame you missed out on that deal. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:28:33 PM EDT
[#28]
All of 'em!
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:29:34 PM EDT
[#29]
Not even a stretch. 1985, H&K 94 for $575 w/ extra extended mags for $30 ea. For $100 less I could have bought a B model Uzi. The dealer had them both in stock and on the back wall for all to handle.....
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:30:22 PM EDT
[#30]
I passed one up for $550 at a gun show April 1989, was used, no box or anything, just blew $650 on a Colt green label HBAR 2 weeks before and I was tapped out
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:35:12 PM EDT
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Colt pocket nine........only reason I didn't buy it was that I coulden't find mags for it so I passed it up............now cdnn has factory mags for under $20 a pop
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:46:47 PM EDT
[#32]
MP 38/40.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:50:12 PM EDT
[#33]
EXACTLY. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:51:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:51:19 PM EDT
[#35]
Same here. I just wished I had known you could buy just the receivers back then.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 3:58:26 PM EDT
[#36]
a .38 and a .22
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Posted: 8/29/2005 4:05:55 PM EDT
[#37]
Me too. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 4:20:27 PM EDT
[#38]
Vector Uzi when they were $3200.
Ruger AC-556 in near mint condition for $1200 back in '92. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 4:25:18 PM EDT
[#39]
an Hk94.
Man if I knew then what I know now. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 4:29:55 PM EDT
[#40]
An HK Mk23 |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 4:34:40 PM EDT
[#41]
I regret not buying an HK91 when they were $450.00 second hand.
I regret not converting my SP-1 to selectfire when it was still legal. I regret not buying a cheap sub machinegun back when they were still "cheap". |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 4:39:15 PM EDT
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Winchester Model 21 double barrel shotgun. Back in 72 I had a chance to to buy a LNIB 12 ga. for $550 from a guy who was selling off his grandfather's estate. I couldn't make up my mind and told him I had to think about it overnight. I came back the next day with cash in hand and it had already been sold to a guy for $575.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 4:44:08 PM EDT
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One of them streetsweepers. Could have gotten one for $150.
AB |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 5:31:39 PM EDT
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1998: A damn near new Remington 1100 20ga left-hander for $500.00.
Was tapped at the time, went back a week later & it was gone. 2004: Found another one & snapped it up on the spot. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 5:44:39 PM EDT
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Went to the gun shop at 18 with 1,500 bucks burning a hole in my pocket. I wanted a Galil, the shop said 2 months wait. I bought a fucking Mini-14 instead
 .Yeah I was young and STUPID !!!
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Posted: 8/29/2005 6:02:59 PM EDT
[#46]
 I'm too young to remember any of the really good stuff ( I was 3 at the time of the '86 MG ban and 6 at the time of the Bush ban ) I do remember the $2995 NIB Vector Uzis though. I regret not buying a transferable MG when I got back from Afghanistan last year and I lived in NC where I could do it.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 7:09:30 PM EDT
[#47]
$2,695.00 Vector Uzi on a group buy.
$2,995.00 factory Colt M16A1 $1,500.00 semi Steyr AUG, black. Mike |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 7:26:14 PM EDT
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Steyr USR for $500 at a gun show, in Southern California no less, during the short period you could buy them.
Sadly, I could not convince my father to buy it for me. I got a shitty chinaman made paintball gun.  I would have been old enough to have it transfered by the time our ban rolled around so it would have been worthwhile. Oh well, no crystal balls.
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Posted: 8/29/2005 7:31:02 PM EDT
[#49]
There was a P7 on cosignment at my local Turner's just last week. It was being finger fucked to high hell by anybody that knew anything about handguns. Wonder if it's still there. I'm picking up an 870 at the store tomorrow evening. Wish I had the extra $. |
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Posted: 8/29/2005 7:33:57 PM EDT
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A Ruger #3 in .45-70 at a Little Rock fun show about 3 years ago. It looked brand new and the seller wanted $300 for it. I didn't have the cash to blow, so
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