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Tiamat

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Reminds me of the gold-plated AK rifles seen in some parts of the world. I guess if you really wanna bling...
 
TheRejectionist

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DarthOne said:
I like Mauser C96's more than most people, but wow.
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If I to buy something German it would be a Walther P38.
Another gun I would buy would be an UZI submachigun and one of the countries I might plan to move in the future actually uses them.
For something of a longer range I would go with a classic AKM, also apparently they have it there as "surplus" taken from "questionable members of society".
 
Captain X

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So I got an Egyptian contact FN49 at an auction sale, but there are a couple of problems with it I could maybe use some help on. One is that the upper rear hand guard is loose at the receiver end. Like it's just floating there as far as I can tell. Anyone know what the problem might be? More pressing, though, it doesn't dry fire at all. I pull the trigger and nothing happens. I field stripped it, but from all the pictures I've seen of it, nothing seems to be missing. Anyone have any thoughts?

Edit: Actually, never mind about the dry firing. It works after putting it back together. Weird thing I never knew about this gun is that there's a little rod that sticks out of the bottom of the trigger guard which indicates if the rifle is charged, apparently.
 
Tiamat

Tiamat

I've seen the future...
Captain X said:
So I got an Egyptian contact FN49 at an auction sale, but there are a couple of problems with it I could maybe use some help on. One is that the upper rear hand guard is loose at the receiver end. Like it's just floating there as far as I can tell. Anyone know what the problem might be? More pressing, though, it doesn't dry fire at all. I pull the trigger and nothing happens. I field stripped it, but from all the pictures I've seen of it, nothing seems to be missing. Anyone have any thoughts?

Edit: Actually, never mind about the dry firing. It works after putting it back together. Weird thing I never knew about this gun is that there's a little rod that sticks out of the bottom of the trigger guard which indicates if the rifle is charged, apparently.
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You might want to have a licensed professional gunsmith check it out, just to be safe.
 
TheRejectionist

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DarthOne said:
It's a little too tied in with the nazis for my taste. Even if it was a post-WW2 one.
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I mean, even if you check post-WW2 usage it gets diluted. Plus it is like more of a collectionist one.

Thought you do reminded me that I am sure if the caliber IS widely available where I would plan to move.
 
Husky_Khan

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I actually haven't seen many of the Expert React videos of Jonathan Ferguson, The Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armories Museum in the UK, home to thousands of iconic weapons throughout history, partly because he's British and they should get a loony American gun nut to do it, and also because it's on Gamespot which has some legacy nostalgia in my heart but is basically as woke and bad as other games journalism companies.

But it was neat to see him on Forgotten Weapons with Gun Jesus Ian.



Apparently they go back a ways... I also wasn't aware Jonathan Ferguson was a gamer himself, unlike many other of these Experts.

One of the interesting things they discuss in this video is how firearm names, and even design patterns regarding the use of firearms in video games and that this actually impacts video game gun designs (ie making them less realistic).
 
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