Virdea

The greatest MAS 49 gunsmith in the world lives in PA.

Don't be a hater. I also got a MAS36 LG48 for 100 bucks at a gun show because the patriotic seller did not want to sully his hands with no "damn looser commie guns." I agreed with him and scored a 500 buck original Vietnam bring back Viet Minh capture less than 300 in the world GL equipped piece of history. And I made a dealer feel better for his patriotism. To make matters more funny, he had dozens of Mosins for sale.

It was on the end of a line of AK47s. The pawn shop dealt in guns that it sold to the local gangs - mostly to the girlfriends of gang members since the actual gangers could not buy guns. The Model 8 was from an estate sale - the dealer picked it up as part of the sale and could not unload it. He tried to even get the gangers to take it as part of his 3-1 sales deal - buy three AKs and get the Model 8 at 100 bucks. I saw it with a 325 price tag. I had to get some power tools and offered him 25 bucks for the rifle. Sold. I ran the serial on NCIC and confirmed I was its second owner, and that it was not stolen. To this day I chuckle over those chrome plated and pink AK47s with 50 rd mags and 100 rd drums with price tags at 2 grand each, and I walked out with a piece of history for the cost of a Mcdonalds meal. Yakima WA, you have to love it.

Now guess what I paid for it?

Your forgot to post the caption: "They caught me spanking Boris in the showers, and now I have to wear this thing for two weeks."

Funny, your Model 8 looks like a metrosexual AK-47. Actually, I like it a lot for a Blackgun. Usually it is hard for me to be swayed by modern weapons.

A brilliant man. I met him twice, which is to say I was in his general area twice, but he was so gracious and professional nearly anyone who worked on set with him felt that they were his personal friend. He was one of those people with an odd gravitas. The best I can compare it to was when I was in a room with Peter Cushing and he asked if I would mind handing him his glass of water, since he was held down by makeup. Lee never had the fame he deserved through much of his life, but that turned him into a humble, magnanimous, and hardworking steward of the craft. And one other thing. When I met him we were being introduced by Paul Vicci since we were working the next stage and craft was shared. He stood up to shake our hands - and turned out he is like 2 meters tall.

Just wait until he does his other dog impression.

It probably is. They modified guns for a few prisons in the 1950s.

Her name is George, and she was my first rifle that was not military or a 22. My grandfather carried and used a model 8.

Lettuce is one of those crops where you get the most bang for having it grown local. Considering the quality of mass delivered Iceberg lettuce, which tastes just like what the name sounds like, if it could be made economically sustainable then nearly every market could have a lettuce farm in it.

Brick Fight, In my study of different cultures I start with food and only study how they kill each other at the end. This subject is fascinating to me. My family is farmers and the how and why is always fascinating. Many (I say many, but I mean more than before) restaurants have started to make deals with farms. The farms grow what the restaurants want. The restaurants pay for the product. With the volatility of restaurants I am interested in how local regulation can support farmers in regional areas. I used to hitch hike from the Texas border to Chiapas every year during my vacation, when I had money and was young and stupid, and many farmers in Mexico set up roadside stands from which they sold produce from the farmers and cooked it up for truckers and the occasional gringo idiot like me. By the way, if your truck were within 50 miles of any state I work in now I would visit it and eat one of each thing on your menu.

My partner in the SD was immune to peppers, hot sauce, or pepper spray. Turns out it tastes hot because of a reactions similar in some ways to a histamine reaction, but with a different mode of operation. Some people have varying degrees of immunity.

This is my Mod8 - serial number for 1907, pistol grips. Strippers are not original but work in this gun.

The Model 8 was offered in 5 varieties through most of its career, with the top three all having pistol grips. The Model 8 shown above never existed in history that anyone can tell, but it does combine third party products in one package that could have come together. I believe that picture was a modern production. What you do see is a Model 8 standard model with a Krieger magazine modification (which you will pay several thousand dollars for) a peep sight (3-4 hundred if one is found on a stock rifle) and a custom grip (which was only known to be added by a few illegal gunsmiths). The magazine is a Krieger extended 20rd, it alone can cost 1000 bucks.

There are properly repaired 308 versions, but the thing is once people have one, they do not give them up. The gun smithing to fix one is straight forward, but you soon find you do not have a gunsmith in your town but a couple of AR assemblers, and when they ruin your rifle they shrug and say, tough.

I also have some cases and reloading supplies. I do not reload anymore since my father died - it was a father / son experience. My limit to giving away reload stuff an my original military packs is to have enough to give the next person who dives into the great 49/56.

My first one cost me 300 dollars. Now they are hard to find south of 500 but the price is rapidly increasing. I scored 2000 rounds from a guy who fired it wholesale in an AAT52. He retired the gun from firing - mostly from expense, so links and all it went into my collection. I also bought another 1000 rounds newly boxed when it was available surplus. I have maybe 20 boxes of military - that has strippers for it in 15 round boxes. All of this is corrosive and Berdan primed. I will give you at least a box, and after figuring out how much I have, maybe a couple more. The Prvi needs the titanium firing pin or a shaved firing pin. Titanium is expensive, shaving is cheap. However Phil does it right with his pins.

I would just get a pull-through for .30 cal, some pipe cleaners, and a strong cloth. I used to carry my MAS into the desert in Washington and found that although it would function really well no matter how much sand was blown around, a paint brush was a welcome part of the cleaning.

Your weapon is a clean and complete MAS 1949/56 - if it is reliable when you get it (there are two issues that can happen when a clod gunsmith gets ahold of them) then you will have one of the best full-size rifles of the 60 and 70s. Yours was arsenal retouched in 1975 and 1985, the last one just prior to being exported to the US. Let me know if you want some military ammo for it. A titanium pin for the MAS is a worth while investment.

Do Bloggers Get Paid by Foreign Governments If the question is does the TFB get paid by China, you have to say that is a unlikely scenario in the extreme. If you mean do all bloggers fly clear and patriotic, the answer is also no. If you look at the extremist Muslim postings in the United States blogosphere you will note a similar message and tone. This is caused by money being paid to them to post. It has long been noted that China pays Japanese, Philippine, and Indonesian posters for their work behind the scenes, and has a very strong effort in South America. Russia pays left wing bloggers in Europe and used to support several US groups. It is only a few steps from taking money from a foreign power or a terror group to tweet their version of the truth, which is often legal(ish) to taking money from them for providing intelligence. There is a market for fake posters and fakin blogs and money to help them establish.

What is ITAR? International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a set of U.S. government regulations that control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the U.S. Munition List (USML).[1] These regulations implement the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, and are described in Title 22 (Foreign Relations), Chapter I (Department of State), Subchapter M of the Code of Federal Regulations. The Department of State interprets and enforces ITAR. Its goal is to safeguard U.S. national security and further U.S. foreign policy objectives. Is this a Democrat thing? No. It was passed in 1976 and supported by congress since then. This recent furor is because Obama is trying to get rid of guns? No, the ITAR changes listed in the Federal register are mostly being done by technocrats who hold positions on civil service contracts that prevent politicization of their jobs. That is why they are put into the Federal Register. Technocrats have to tell everyone when they monkey with a reg so people have time to react. Could This Affect Bloggers? Absolutely, if they are exporters. An exporter is someone who sells a product to a foreign entity for money. A blogger who knowingly sells information, even openly available information, to a nation or NGO on a watch list can be fined or charged for violating ITAR. This does not mean that they have to stop foreign nationals from visiting their blogs and earning them advertising dollars. It means that if they get a paycheck for their writing for a foreign source they need to do due diligence to find out what the money is for and who is giving them the money. So, for example, if a blogger is hired by China to write an article on the capabilities of US ships, they can be fined or jailed for this. The big ones that are of concerns is ISIS, Boko Harum, the Taliban, and the like. Do You Have an Example? Yes. ISIS contacts a blogger and asks for an article on how to execute soldiers wearing standard US helmet without removing them from their heads. They offer the blogger $10,000 for the service. The blogger complies and gives them the article and gets the money. They have now violated ITAR. What About the First Amendment? Justices for 200 years have provided less freedom to commercial speech than political, so this speech, as it is commercial, faces stiffer regulations. If the blogger writes an article on how to execute US soldiers and posts on their own website? They need to talk to a lawyer, but they have not exported the product, as they received no money, and they were not contracted by a foreign power for the information. Distasteful information is covered by the First Amendment. What changes actually happened? The changes to ITAR are mostly on the subject of collation of open information. It is possible under the old regulations that a person who merely collated public information as a service for ISIS could be innocent as they were not providing new information. Why then is the NRA concerned? We are coming into a presidential season and the NRA's top candidates are already in trouble in the polls. The NRA is a massively expensive organization to run with hundreds of people paid six figures or more, and a larger member base of lifetime members. The only way to raise the HUGE money needed to keep the current political influence is to rouse the party base on trivial or non-existence issues. This also confirms to Washington NRA power. If the NRA can create buzz around a lie, then it is more powerful because it could bring down politicians who do not follow their fiat for any reason, even one without a factual basis.

Lindsey was the only person I could find dumb enough to want an AK.

I hope My gift for you arrives in time. It is a bear hunting suit made completely from bacon. It has a custom made holster for an M4 pistol and two magazines, made from bacon, and cartridge loops for 24 rounds of 6.8mm made from prociouto.

This is not Sturgeon demanding this of us, but a request. Out of respect for Sturgeon we should remember it is his income and this is his forum.