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I love this site! I often use it to find the cool gun a main character is using and get one for myself.

I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I bought a modern Mauser replica action to build a clone of the k98 used by Riza in Fullmetal Alchemist.

Dude, that rocks! The gun-building community is going crazy these days. There's some very cool sci-fi guns being printed: https://twitter.com/p80ralph/status/1473091500225572866/phot...

Be very careful with those. It's *very* easy to end up on the wrong side of the ATF. I.e. on that one you posted, he's calling it a pistol, but it appears to have a stock to me.

I believe that makes it a rifle in ATF terms. Rifles have to have a 16" barrel, or they're short-barreled rifles that require a whole bunch of extra paperwork and some taxes. The class is called NFA Items, and includes fully automatic weapons. I.e. making that thing is the same as home-manufacturing a machine gun to the law.

I'm going to hope for his sake that he's got the appropriate FFL licenses to allow him to make such things. It seems like they're really into the space, so it wouldn't surprise me. I don't think those licenses are crazy hard to get, but I could be wrong.

Not the referenced folk, but I have the licenses. They are not extremely difficult to get, but you need to be running a real firearms business, not just for yourself as a hobby or collection. ATF has cracked down on people using the licenses as a cheap way to avoid tax stamps and paperwork.

The back of the "stock" looks pretty highly sloped. I think it's a fin type stabilizer.

You don't need an FFL to make NFA items. You just need to have the tax stamp before you start if you don't have an FFL SOT.

I actually didn't know that, I thought manufacturing was gated behind FFL licenses.

That's good to know, I appreciate the correction!

At least they don't give us grief, even in my anti-gun state, over making a bolt action rifle like K98. I'd love to make a few more modern pieces but ugh.

It's a brace. I'm well aware of the dangers, and anyone who wants to build should learn the rules.

The licenses are a massive pain to get. End the NFA.

You don't need an FFL to manufacture, even NFA, but all that aside...f the ATF! Unelected bureaucrats who write laws are a curse upon us all.

"Braces," like the sig pcb are workarounds to these arbitrary rules and evidence of that fact.

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

Hey, just what you see pal.

Your poor bank account

Eh, think of it as diversification.

(until you start buying ammo anyway)

Depending on the political climate, buying and sitting on large amounts of ammo for the next price surge could be a good investment.

Unless you live somewhere that restricts your ability to resell it

Thankfully that legislative idiocy seems constrained to specific states.

What the DOJ doesn't know can't hurt it.

For the record, this is what get people on illegal (whole debate on the legality of the NFA aside) machine guns and silencers. Yes, your state may have a prohibition which is a criminal action, but the feds want you for tax evasion for not paying the $200.

Iirc, rapper Ti went to jail for tax evasion on his illegal guns. Another side topic how he spent 1 year in jail while the statute says it’s a 10 year crime. If you are going to break the law, be rich first.

>and sitting on

This is where I struggle.

Someone needs to do an Indiana Jones scene with a box of Gold Dots instead of the golden idol.

Guns depreciate very slowly, and if high-quality or unusual, they often appreciate. Not really a net worth hit.

I think when I sold my 1911 it was more expensive than when I bought it, but even though I didn't use it much I had spent like at least 5 or 6 guns just on ammo and I still sucked with the thing.

1911s are wonderful, but definitely not for everyone. Polarizing grip angle.

I love it until it stovepipes again.

As a Beretta lover, I felt that in my soul. John Moses Browning, we're sorry for ignoring the hi-power.

FYI, the new Springfield Hi-Power is very cool.

There's also a printable frame for it. Really nice to see one of the coolest old guns get revived.

> we're sorry for ignoring the hi-power.

Gun Jesus knows, and he forgives you.

I don't think it even needs to be high-quality or unusual, these days. A Mosin bolt-action rifle is not exactly rare, with 37 million made in total. It's also, with few exceptions (such as Finnish marksman variants) not exactly the finest gun in terms of build. 15 years ago, you could get one for $70. 5 years ago, they were going for $300 or so. These days, $600 would be a good find.

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