Century Arms Montreal?
- Thread starter Calum
- Start date
Enough all ready, you're making me want to cry. I sold my old ar10 in 95 and still regret it. Does anyone know the name of the store in montreal that was on notre dame? I think they later moved to St.Laurent. I was going to buy a car15 from that store for $1200 around 93.
stencollector
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
If anybody here bought one of those liberator pistols shown in the 1974 ad for $59.95, and wants to make about $500 profit, send me a PM.
You noticed that too, eh? Amazing how those Liberators have shot up in price... a real collectors item. And in '74, 60 bucks for a piece of stamped tin was pricey... but even then, they were recognized as a collectors item. Piece of stamped steel, made by GM, with a smooth bbl, hollow handle to hold three rounds (I believe) and a very time consuming method of unloading the empty casing.stencollector said:
Still, it was built and airdropped behind enemy lines so that partisans could use them against the hun to take THEIR weapons. If only some of those Liberators could speak, imagine the tales they would tell...
Look at this great page with a little bit of history on the Liberator and CRY when you see that a serial number was engraved into it to satisfy some Liberal party morons (obviously prior to the days of the world famous registration stickers).
http://www.adrax.com/watsons/lib.htm
NavyShooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- XMU Local .303
Was talking at the local gunshow the other week with someone about the liberators...he was kicking his butt for not picking one up.
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No but guess what... I KNOW I saw them on the net somewhere so I "Wikiepedia'd" it (hey if people can say "googled it"...) and there were a few links and the one that has this illustration is our very own NFA website!aiwa said:
http://www.nfa.ca/firearms/liberator-pistol-fp-45.html
gunplumberr
Regular
299.95 in 1993 bucks is 382.29 in 2006 bucks
Get the M95, ammo was only 25 cents a round, and it was all pretty much Wollersdorf stuff for the longest time. Then they started bringing in the Bulgarian stuff. At the time (IIRC) Hansen was the cheapest real ammo around and I used to be able to get that for 10$s/box of 20.aiwa said:
There really wasn't much I ever wanted personally from them, they had the big 50cal bolt action in thier late years, which would have been interesting, but the price was prohibitive. The only gun I kick myself over was the little CZ that had the two tone finish, chrome and black.
I still remember thinking I should have bought a few of the klunkers they used to see encased in lucite
They were a good company to deal with, and did have some really good bargains at the time.
- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
NavyShooter said:
I'm glad someone posted that ad with the liberators in them, because I remember having some discussion with a dealer in the US in the early 1990s about Century having them, as I remember seeing one in a gunshop in France and the owner told me he paid basically piss all for it and he bought it from a dealer in Québec together with some other guns. I figured it probably was Century.
Anyway this US dealer insisted I was talking out my backside, Century had never had them ever, blah, blah, blah and I was wondering if my memory was failing me - apparently not. Never imported into the US because of the import prohibition (not suitable for "sporting purposes"), which is why he'd never seen them, I guess (actually wouldn't it be an "any other weapon" under the NFA because of the smoothbore barrel?)
As for the FA MAS, they only imported a very small number, it says less than 25 in Fjestad's, not sure if that means they imported less than 25 total or less than 25 made it into the US.
My friend in Florida had one, NIB unfired, not sure if he still has it.
freddo said:
The firing step looks distinctly anticlimactic...kind of like a squirt gun.
Some interesting quotes from the NFA article:
"This is the only pistol that could be made faster than it could be loaded.."
"The pistol was packed in a paraffin-coated cardboard box with ten rounds of .45 ACP ammunition, a wooden stick for poking out empties and a set of graphic instructions."
"For collectors the "comic-strip" instruction sheet and the paperboard shipping box are actually many times more valuable than the guns themselves."
cybershooters said:
One of the prime reasons CAI worked on both sides of the border was to smooth out problems like this. Guns that couldn't be imported were reworked or parted out. Think Interarms without as many machine guns.
As for the FA MAS, I have seen two at local gun shops before the ban. One was at Al Hobbs in Richmond Hill, and the second was proudly hanging on the wall at Le Barons on Yonge St.
