Milsurp Horror
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CptnBlues63
Regular
- Location
- Northern Alberta
My little brother's wife inherited a luger and a couple other .22 handguns from her father when he passed away. The luger of course is prohib because of the barrel length. Back in the 80's I used to own a Walther PPK which I sold to our oldest brother in like, 89.
Anyhow, little brother tells me about the luger and of course I wanted it. There was no way to swing it since I don't have a prohib. Called big brother and told him to grab it since he was grandfathered in with my old PPK. Dumbass didn't bother and now it's been decommissioned and is hanging on a plaque in a messhall on an army base *sigh*
Anyhow, little brother tells me about the luger and of course I wanted it. There was no way to swing it since I don't have a prohib. Called big brother and told him to grab it since he was grandfathered in with my old PPK. Dumbass didn't bother and now it's been decommissioned and is hanging on a plaque in a messhall on an army base *sigh*
MudChucker
Regular
- Location
- Niverville, Manitoba, CA
as a kid in Burnaby BC I had a neighbour who' son was RCMP - I was young, but in those days it was still safe to walk down a back lane... I saw him pull up in the car and stop in the lane... he got out of the car, and as I walked down the lane to say hello and poke about his car, he got out and opened the trunk... he must have had about a 100 webley's maybe more and maybe different pistols, looking back in my mind I recall a few of them with the action opened..... I was little, but there was lots - lots- of hand guns in his trunk... and when I asked what was with all the guns he told me that they were old police guns that were destroyed...
no idea what he ever did with them...
My great grandpa's ww2 bring back was a german howitzer.
Now for the saddening part... He disassembled it, greased the crap out of it, and buried it god only knows where on a huge plot of land in Ft. St. John, only one living member of my family knows it's location now (it's been buried a long time lol). However he is in a legal dispute with his sister, who currently owns that land (she tricked her dying father into removing the brother from the will).
Long story short, the greedy b*tch is sitting on the land, and the brother cant get to the howitzer, and i want it so i can have it properly restored
! If this guy dies of old age or for any other reason, the location goes with him to the grave 
Now for the saddening part... He disassembled it, greased the crap out of it, and buried it god only knows where on a huge plot of land in Ft. St. John, only one living member of my family knows it's location now (it's been buried a long time lol). However he is in a legal dispute with his sister, who currently owns that land (she tricked her dying father into removing the brother from the will).
Long story short, the greedy b*tch is sitting on the land, and the brother cant get to the howitzer, and i want it so i can have it properly restored
! If this guy dies of old age or for any other reason, the location goes with him to the grave 
Worst I saw was a 1911 in .455 Eley auto marked for the RFC which some #### had paid to have Bomac sights cut into the front! He couldnt work out why it didnt function well with .45 ACP. I believe he wanted to have it stripped and dipped in a silver finish popular in the early 80's
Oh the pain!
if it was altered in service thats fine but this guy was a butcher!
Oh the pain!
if it was altered in service thats fine but this guy was a butcher!
Navy Gunner
Regular
- Location
- Eastern Passage NS
My great grandpa's ww2 bring back was a german howitzer.
Now for the saddening part... He disassembled it, greased the crap out of it, and buried it god only knows where on a huge plot of land in Ft. St. John, only one living member of my family knows it's location now (it's been buried a long time lol). However he is in a legal dispute with his sister, who currently owns that land (she tricked her dying father into removing the brother from the will).
Long story short, the greedy b*tch is sitting on the land, and the brother cant get to the howitzer, and i want it so i can have it properly restored
Anyway to buy a metal detector and search the land, shouldn't be that far from the road.
Navy Gunner
Regular
- Location
- Eastern Passage NS
I got another one for you guys. walked into a gun store one day and seen a enfield on the rack that was marked to the royal newfoundland regiment. The guy who had it had it cut down. The horror.
My great grandpa's ww2 bring back was a german howitzer.
Now for the saddening part... He disassembled it, greased the crap out of it, and buried it god only knows where on a huge plot of land in Ft. St. John, only one living member of my family knows it's location now (it's been buried a long time lol). However he is in a legal dispute with his sister, who currently owns that land (she tricked her dying father into removing the brother from the will).
Long story short, the greedy b*tch is sitting on the land, and the brother cant get to the howitzer, and i want it so i can have it properly restored
Holy ####.
Get a really strong metal detector and search the hell out of the field.
My first surprise is, how the f**k he managed to smuggle a German howitzer.
When I was in grade school, a friend of my father was going through quite the bad divorce and decided to give away his guns to my dad for helping him out during the ordeal and so that his collection wouldn't wind up in his ex-wife's hands. Among the small collection was a StG-44 in great shape! It was the real deal; full auto, nice wood, etc, as my father's friend brought it over when he moved to Canada from the former Yugoslavia way back when. Eventually my father ended up selling it to someone else he knew and I never saw it again. When I was a bit older I asked why he sold it and for how much, I nearly keeled over as his response was " didn't need it, got $500 for it" !! Needless to say I've kept an eye out so this doesn't happen again, and just my luck, it did , he sold a No.5 Jungle carbine with full wood and metal (not sporterized) and in decent shape to someone who really wanted it for $100. I have an interesting family to say the least, but I still have a handful of the original 7.92x33 kurz ammo for the StG-44 as a memento.
It was the real deal; full auto, nice wood, etc, as my father's friend brought it over when he moved to Canada from the former Yugoslavia way back when. Eventually my father ended up selling it to someone else he knew and I never saw it again. When I was a bit older I asked why he sold it and for how much, I nearly keeled over as his response was " didn't need it, got $500 for it" !! Needless to say I've kept an eye out so this doesn't happen again, and just my luck, it did , he sold a No.5 Jungle carbine with full wood and metal (not sporterized) and in decent shape to someone who really wanted it for $100. I have an interesting family to say the least, but I still have a handful of the original 7.92x33 kurz ammo for the StG-44 as a memento. - Location
- Tucson, Arizona
In a perfect "liberal" utopia Only the Police, the Army, and the politicians "friends' will have those nasty guns.
OH, and of course the CRIMINALS
OH, and of course the CRIMINALS
There were lots of GI and commercial 1911 & 1911A1's butchered up in the 70's, 80's and even right up into the late 90's to make competition & target pistols. I've personally seen lots over the last ~ 30 years... It's certainly a damn shame but it's not uncommon at all.
NAA.
A friend of mine is a cadet and he got to go into the confiscated gun room.... he said they had anything you could think of in there.... he listed a couple off ie thompson with drums, aks, non milsurp brandnew firearms.... i cried as he told me they all just get smeltered.
- Location
- WMU248 near Edmonton
nothing unusual about that, there were a few US Army halftracks that were smuggled back. If you know how the system works then you can use the system of if you know someone that knows how the system works and you can pay them off your good to go 
