Christof Stehpinkler

Damn, have you measured the cyclic on that thing?

Turkish 1911s are getting a good reputation. You can buy 3 Tisas for the same price as one of the bigger name guns, and get a product that is fully the equal of the expensive one resting on its laurels.

An unfired transferable 1921 is going to be worth a lot of money, letter or no, especially if it has the original FBI case and serial-number matched drum magazine. Surely $60k or more. The Hoover provenance might add another $10k to the price paid by a serious collector, or much more if it's the original letter and has his signature.

I did this when I had Andrew Kaliopolitis work on my Uzi SMG. I was flying back to New Hampshire on other business, so I took the gun with me in my checked baggage. I put the Air Tag between layers of foam in my hard case. The lack of any cellular capability didn't seem to be a problem, as there were always enough people around with Apple devices to give me close to real-time tracking of its location. I was able to identify the specific baggage cart it was on when I looked out the window of the airplane, and to watch my suitcase get stowed in the hold. After landing at Manchester I was able to watch its progress to the baggage service desk. Very reassuring. Andrew shipped it back via insured registered mail, with my hard case packed inside a padded cardboard box. Again, the Air Tag gave me nearly constant updates on its location. In fact I was able to watch it moving as it was driven from the Los Angeles airport to a shipper's warehouse to a post office in Pasadena and then another 350 miles along I-10 to the post office down the road from my house in Scottsdale. It looked like every car with an iPhone that passed by the semi carrying my package would update its position. All of this information was received in near real time, DAYS before the on-line registered mail tracking log was updated. It was a pretty slow shipment, taking nine or ten days to get to me, so it was good for my mental health to see not just the post office where it was stashed, but the specific corner of the building. https://imgur.com/a/MeSD24P I'll be putting these things in all my luggage from now on. I am a little creeped out by the privacy implications but it's worth it.

Good shooting, I bet your shoulder was sore, and you might have lost a thumbnail too! Do they allow customer-owned full auto?

HK Parts just got a large shipment of Polish flares. They have 10-packs, or sealed tins of 140 flares. I bought some but haven't tried them yet. https://hkparts.net/tin-with-flares-26-5mm/

Kosher Surplus has them. https://www.koshersurplus.com/product/26-5mm-sealed-10-pack-red-rain-red-flare-orange-smoke-and-blue-smoke/

I use "Settlor & Trustee" and have had a Form 4 and a Form 1 approved.

Christmas came early for you

I believe those Suomi devices are generally recognized as the finest drum magazines ever made for any weapon. It was a stroke of genius for Lage to build uppers for them.

I am glad I paid a little more for a Vector Uzi instead of trying to save a little by going with the SW-76. Even though parts availability is apparently drying up compared to ten or twenty years ago, I've got enough set aside to build a couple more guns if I had the receivers, and you can still get pretty much anything you really need.

I have a question just for my own curiosity; you certainly don’t need to answer if you don’t wish to. Tell me how it is that you possess so many valuable, highly collectible NFA machine guns, yet have no concept of how much they are worth. Were you a collector in the remote past who lost the passion long ago, or are you an executor or heir with an estate collection you are breaking up after the demise of their owner, or what? If you just want to liquidate them quickly, and be certain to stay on the right side of the law while doing so, you might call one of the top NFA dealers like Ruben Mendiola or Only the Best, both of whom are down in Florida. For that many guns they would probably fly someone out to inspect them, and write you a pretty decent check on the spot. But if you want to squeeze every last penny out of them piece by piece, venues like this place or Gun Broker can do it for you.

You can put a registered sear in in any configuration you like — any host, any length barrel, with or without stock, belt fed or magazine fed, any caliber — as you see fit. But to stay legal you have to be able to put it back in the configuration it was approved in. Don’t sell your 9mm host if that’s the configuration you record on your Form 4.

I tried to put one of these devices on a 32 rd magazine but there is a little flange at the bottom of the mag that prevents it from sliding all the way into place. Are there other mags from different countries that don’t have that flange, or does it require modification of the extension and/or magazine body with a Dremel tool?

I am skeptical. Can’t you get wrecked for constructive possession with saw-cut parts?