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Looks like those guns have been out in the elements for years.

I remember watching a movie that was based in nam about destroying all the firearms left over from the war. I'm POSITIVE that there is no export whatsoever from nam.
 
There may not be any commercial export from Viet Nam, but I wouldn't hold my breath as to "no export whatsoever".
Viet Nam isn't a rich country. After the war, there was billions of dollars worth of surplus arms left behind. Everything from aircraft to sidearms to uniforms and ground vehicles includeing trucks, cars and armor. Artillery and Heavy machine guns as well. Ships, patrol boats fuel depots etc.

I think the Vietnamese are extremely enterpriseing people. There is no way in hell that any commodity that is in such demand would be trashed for little or no monetary gain.

berhunter
 
Quite a few years ago, a certain number of Colt 1911A1 pistols and Winchester 1897 Trench shotguns were imported from Vietnam. They were heavily pitted and they were wire-brushed & reblued before being sold on the open market.
 
If that is what it took to restore peace, safety and harmony to an area, then so be it.

Don't forget Canadian soldiers have also rounded up guns and ammo for destruction as part of their peace missions.
 
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Yes......Yes......horrible...
 
cantom said:
I went to a gun range at the Cu Chi Tunnels near Saigon a few years ago. They had most of those guns there available to rent for 1 USD per round. Not the minigun unfortunately...
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Did you fire the RPG for a couple hundred bucks? Vietnam is one of the coolest places on the planet, methinks. I encourage any gun or historynut to get there.
 
bearhunter said:
There may not be any commercial export from Viet Nam, but I wouldn't hold my breath as to "no export whatsoever".
Viet Nam isn't a rich country. After the war, there was billions of dollars worth of surplus arms left behind. Everything from aircraft to sidearms to uniforms and ground vehicles includeing trucks, cars and armor. Artillery and Heavy machine guns as well. Ships, patrol boats fuel depots etc.

I think the Vietnamese are extremely enterpriseing people. There is no way in hell that any commodity that is in such demand would be trashed for little or no monetary gain.

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About 10 years ago, I was at a full-auto shoot in Albany OR.
I got talking to a guy that had been to Viet Nam recently, and brought back a bunch of stuff including Garand bayonets. Due to the high humidity, they were badly rusted.
He said that once relations with VN were normalized, it was fine for US companies to do business there once again. (Previously, the US had sanctions in place for North Viet Nam and later for the unified VN. I once purchased a packet of NVN postage stamps here in Canada, then was surprised to find my US made album didn't even have a page for them.)
Anyway, he was able to bring back this stuff, as it was deemed "lost" by the US gov. Oddly enough, the stuff they give to friendly countries cannot be returned to the US. Like the Garands that Lever Arms brought in from Denmark about 12 years ago.
 
ollie said:
Did you fire the RPG for a couple hundred bucks? Vietnam is one of the coolest places on the planet, methinks. I encourage any gun or historynut to get there.
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Ha...my wife and her sister were looking at me like I was nuts for wasting $20USD...I wouldn't have gotten away with that...

Never saw any RPG's...

I did go to a war museum in Hanoi, they had quite the collection of arms from the war.
 
My lady wouldn't even go with me to the cu-chi tunnels, although I did drag her to a shooting range in Cambodia (oddly enough, nearly beside the killing fields. wierd), and even got her to let a couple bursts out of the AK. Of course, now she uses that as her out to stay home when I go shooting. "I shot an AK full auto, what else do you want?!":D I also shot the M60, M14, M16, 1911, and tossed a grenade. They charge criminal prices, but you gotta do it!

So I've got a U.S. property trenchgun, one of the vietnam imports(although mine doesn't appear to be reblued), can I take it to the U.S. on my form 6?
 
ollie said:
My lady wouldn't even go with me to the cu-chi tunnels, although I did drag her to a shooting range in Cambodia (oddly enough, nearly beside the killing fields. wierd), and even got her to let a couple bursts out of the AK. Of course, now she uses that as her out to stay home when I go shooting. "I shot an AK full auto, what else do you want?!":D I also shot the M60, M14, M16, 1911, and tossed a grenade. They charge criminal prices, but you gotta do it!

So I've got a U.S. property trenchgun, one of the vietnam imports(although mine doesn't appear to be reblued), can I take it to the U.S. on my form 6?
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Absolutely not! Don't even think about it.

You went to Cu Chi too? I've been kicking myself for picking the M16...even though it looked clean and well maintained it jammed ever 2-3 rounds...what a ripoff.
Should have picked the AK or M14 or Thompson. :mad:

The RO tried to tell me to shoot semi...as if, hahaha...

Did they actually have RPG's to fire??
 
I also noticed that there are piles of no M-16, which were captured in huge numbers by the victorious North Vietnamese....
 
Brentn said:
Looks like those guns have been out in the elements for years.

I remember watching a movie that was based in nam about destroying all the firearms left over from the war. I'm POSITIVE that there is no export whatsoever from nam.
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Right, where do you think the USGI AR-15s and M-16s scattered thoughout the world in the 70s & 80s to Marxist/communist "liberation" fronts came from??

Oh yeah, these pictures have been attributed for years to everywhere from England to Africa to SE Asia....
 
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