Crazy machine gun prices

I paid $225 for a NIB SWD M11/9mm third gen "MAC" back in the early 80's.

Traded that off a couple of years after Obama got in for a couple of suppressors and the tax on them.

Paid $800 for my HK94/MP5 conversion in 86, just prior to the ban.

Sold that for $15 when Obama got in, as I didnt want to risk losing the equity to the swipe of a pen. Should have held on to it, as last I looked, they were going for $35-40K.

I also had a German MP40 that I picked up around the time of the MAC, in a trade for little money (roughly $6-800 value). Right now, thats the one gun I wish I hadnt got rid of. Nostalgia I guess. Traded it off to a friend, so I still get to shoot it here and there.

What Reagan did when he signed that bill back in 86, was basically stop the manufacture and availability of new guns for us lowly citizens. What was in the registry at the time, is what there was, and currently is, as far as available guns.

And those guns/items, are attrition items as well, because, as things wear out/break, you "technically" cant repair or replace the serial numbered part.

I used to shoot with a boy who had an AO Thompson, that had the receiver crack at the rear corner. He called them and asked if anything could be done, and they said to send it in and they'd look at it. He got the gun back, and it was "fixed". Only it wasnt the same receiver. Same serial number, different lettering and markings, no weld where there should have been a weld. They took care of him.

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Crazy machine gun prices