I was in a pawn shop the other day and saw a "custom preban mini14 with assault features"(that is wha the $800 price tag called it). This thing had what looked like a cut up 10/22 plastic stock, a pistol grip that looked like it came off of an AR, and to top it all off it had a chinese underfolding buttstock on one end and a poorly welded on M60 flash hider on the other. I have heard of a bubbaized gun but give me a break. I couldn't help but laugh, and in case you are open minded and are thining maybe if it was done properly it wouldn't look so bad, well I couldn't tell ya, duct tape and staples would have been an engineering improvement on this things construction.
I believe in a free economy but I think that anybody who would sell this work of art should have thier pawn brokers liscense revoked on the spot. I am no Mini14 expert but that thing just could not have been safe to fire. It was easily the ugliest gun I have ever seen, and I have been to South America and seen some nasty looking abortions, but htis thing made those things look like range queens. I walked out of the store without looking at anything else, I mean if this guy wanted that much for that POS, I can only imagine what he would charge for a special operations style preban high cap tactical dream gun just like the SEALS use, the mighty SAR-1, I guess that dream gun would probably come with a mortgage in that shop. I hate to waste bandwidth but I just had to share this with someone, and my wife didn't find it amusing at all.