what happened???
once upon a time...in a gun-building galaxy far, far away...
there was a whole bunch of guys that wanted ak's built and altered. you see...none of the 'master builders' would dare reveal the secrets of their alchemy.
the huddled masses yearned for custom ak's.
along came mike prewitt and his company, msc (machine services co.). now, mike was a hack that did barely acceptable work...but, he did his work for generally low prices and a fairly quick turaround time.
soon, there were allegations that mike's work was sucking badly. however, since he had his own forum on the dorknutz board, he could delete his own posts and edit others.
well, despite the censorship mike was soon bankrupt and out of the ak building biz.
strpping in to fill the void left by mike prewitt was 'master-uber-builder-artisan' gary gucciano. gary claimed to be the best builder ever to set a rivet or press a bbl.
now, gary returned a few very nice rifles back to the owners...and we are still, to this very day, trying to figure out 'who' really built them. gary had no tools, no machine shop and no talent...other than a chicken coop in which he stored rifles so that they could rust, and an ability to tell a lie the likes of which has never been seen on the internet before or since.
gary soon had suckered over a hundred guys into what appeared to be a pyramid scheme. hundreds of ak's went missing in action...as did hard earned cash in an ammount that probably exceeded $100,000.
all of this was covered up deep on the dorknutz board.
it was finally exposed here, at the falfiles and a couple other boards.
once the scale of the operation became known, the customers started to file complaints with the kansas attorney general.
a judgement was issued against gary gucciano. no more working as a smith and he had to pay back those he had ripped off.
sadly, the money disappeared and all da gooch has is a mobile home and a chicken coop...on land that he doesn't even own.
very few guys were fortunate to get their rifles back...some even got the wrong rifle or parts sent back to them. afaik, no one has gotten their money back.