Next wave of military surplus?

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Polish-Jack

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The latest wave of military surplus guns was the SKS/Tokarev. We have not seen anything new come into Canada since then. Has anyone heard any rumblings or rumors of what might be coming down the pipe next?

What companies usually spearhead the imports of milsurp in Canada?
 
The next wave of military surplus will be long guns that if they get into Canada at all will be Restricted class and may have to be modified to achieve that. The cost of making them compliant may preclude importing them. And it's getting more common that governments won't sell military weapons to be sold on to civilians anywhere.
 
Royal Tiger Imports has just imported a quantity of surplus arms from Ethiopia into the US. Old Mausers and Italian Carcanos. Also some No. 4s. This is the sort of thing that might become available. Very much doubt if anything more modern is going to appear here.
 
Polish-Jack said:
The latest wave of military surplus guns was the SKS/Tokarev. We have not seen anything new come into Canada since then. Has anyone heard any rumblings or rumors of what might be coming down the pipe next?

What companies usually spearhead the imports of milsurp in Canada?
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I’d say we’ve had other waves of surplus come in. Russian captured Mausers, Beretta 92Ss, Jerichos, lots of places have M1 Carbines right now (although lots of them are in tacticool stocks). Corwin Arms has had Lee Enfields at times. Yugo Mausers have been around in various conditions for a while. TradeEx has brought in batches of Garands and Schmidt Rubins. TradeEx and Trigger Wholesale are usually at the forefront of milsurp imports in general, beyond just Eastern Bloc guns.
 
There were no "waves", just different imports from different importers. Some batches were bigger than other. Some were even secondary imports, like that relatively small batch of Yugo SKS that came from US.
 
handofzeus said:
$2134.50 CAD for a 1929 Mosin?!
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The exchange rate is 3:1.

But you were looking at the "wrong" page.

Did you see the page with machine guns and submachine guns? How does $1500 cdn for a Thompson sound? Or $1700 CDN for an M53 (Yugoslav post war MG42)? Heck there are even some FALs listed.

I managed to pick up an M53, with Lafette tripod for about $3000 CDN.
 
There are plenty of future opportunities around. Former Eastern Bloc nations will likely continue to uncover caches of arms for years, East Asia is another possible source as is the untapped reserves of Africa. The quantities will likely not be in the same league as previous decades of imports but I expect a slow trickle will continue in the future as long as the market will bear it.
 
BlackPowderBurner said:
There are plenty of future opportunities around. Former Eastern Bloc nations will likely continue to uncover caches of arms for years, East Asia is another possible source as is the untapped reserves of Africa. The quantities will likely not be in the same league as previous decades of imports but I expect a slow trickle will continue in the future as long as the market will bear it.
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Speaking of Africa:


Oh and a while back there was a story about Russia melting down massive stockpiles of captured German guns (MG42, P38, etc.) to use the metal in a church or something.
 
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