Remember When: AKM

[Patt08]

It's a iconic firearm! The second they arent prohibs I'll buy two!

 

[7.62xfun]

I hear the ak is going non prohib right around the time the korean garands get here

 

[tdod101]

It's a iconic firearm! The second they arent prohibs I'll buy two!

I'll see your 2 and raise you 4

 

[evolture]

$590 seems pretty high for 88'. I don't know much about prices of guns in 1988, considering I was 1, but they seem to be going for around $800 in the States currently.
Did Canadian dealers gouge the firearm community then too?

I wonder if these thing were even possible to get in the USA during the Cold War. Or did everyone have to pony up for a Valmet?

 

[Patt08]

Hopefully some day we can classify firearms on function, instead of fear. That's a world I some day want to live in. A chicken in every pot, and an AK in every safe.

 

[zupermann]

Ahh yes...Norc AK's at Century for $450-ish. Dragonov SVD's at the S.I.R. catalog (non restricted) in 1990. Wonder how few of those got registered in 1992...

 

[cranswick]

none probably, lol

I mean obviously, cause nobody has one

 

[Ohno]

Did Canadian dealers gouge the firearm community then too?

$0.72 Canadian Dollar in 1986 and $0.81 in 1988

 

[haim]

I still have my original bill for the Hungarian AK some where. In the late 80's cost me around 700 dollars.it was lots of money then.

 

[r34skyline]

aarrgh!

makes me regret not getting a bunch of cz858s for $700

I can appease your regrets. I will buy them off you

 

[enefgee]

$590 seems pretty high for 88'. I don't know much about prices of guns in 1988, considering I was 1, but they seem to be going for around $800 in the States currently.
Did Canadian dealers gouge the firearm community then too?

That WAS expensive - those were the expensive "premium" ones, and that mag price was insane. I got a NR (longer barrel) Chinese AK from Lever for less than $400, the mags were $30. He had 5 rounders for "hunting" too. Your choice of stock. Most of the ones Lever sold were built on the LMG receiver, so they were a bit more solid than a lot of the Chinese AKs. Regarding registration - I read somewhere that there are 1500 registered prohib rifles in BC - Lever alone brought in sea cans full of AK's - probably 2 a year, maybe they all went bad? But that doesn't explain what happened to all of the other prohibs he sold - FAL's, virtually all of Israel's M14's, etc. etc.

PS I love the fact that they have a note reminding you that you need an FAC to buy guns, given that you could get one in 24 hours.