Inexpensive Good Guns to Replace guns Turned in at Baltimore “buyback” for $200

Ammoland ^ | 28 December, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

I found those Makarovs to be very nice little guns. Very reliable, accurate, mild recoil.

But, if you wanted some more oomph, $200 with little hassle in MD is not too bad a deal.

When you consider that a Glock 19, loaded, weighs about the same as a Makarov, loaded, but holds double the capacity, and each round twice as powerful...

Makarov, about 212-231 foot pounds of energy

9x19 Parabellum, 355-455 foot pounds of energy

[Carriage Hill]

Agreed with that.

We're just here to chat."

[Pollster1]

https://www.80-lower.com/products/80-lowers-fire-safe-marked-10-pack/

10-pack of 80% lowers for $580. Finish them (much faster as a batch), and you legally have 10 “assault weapons.” It would be fun to collect $3k . . . or see how those weasels talk their way out of that one.

[marktwain]

It would be fun to collect $3k . . . or see how those weasels talk their way out of that one.

They will simply refuse to pay you.

What are you going to do, sue them? In Baltimore?

[Pollster1]

Would they refuse though, or would they pay you to get those completed lowers off the streets? (1) Corrupt or not (and in Baltimore they probably are, it’s not their money; and (2) ARs are “bad”, so it would be worth $3k of taxpayer dollars to take them off the streets. “If it saves even one life . . .”

I won’t do it because it’s unethical to take tax dollars for a nonproductive purpose, but imagining that game with the gun grabbers makes me smile.

[marktwain]

They stopped paying for rifle magazines over 10 rounds. No explanation. They just stopped.

[marktwain]

Here are 80% lowers (forged). Only $35.99 each.

[cpdiii]

And there was the time when SKSs were cheap

Bought a few and still have one. Actually a very good weapon if under 200 yards. 7.62-39 ballistics are not bad at that range. Accuracy goes way down after two hundred yards. The SKS is a very fine home defense weapon and the ammo is cheap.

When I bought mine they were 85 dollars. The one I now possess was wrapped in cosmoline and paper. It took a lot of cleaning with gasoline to take out all the cosmoline. When I examined the weapon for wear there was none. It had never been fired unless at the factory. One can buy an extended mag for it that substitutes for its internal. Only takes about ten minutes to do. It will give you 30 rounds of grief. The SKS is a most excellent short range weapon for home defense.

[familyop]

Maybe it should be called the Baltimore Firearms Opportunity then.

[familyop]

[Heh. Little acronym there.]

[Pollster1]

That’s why we enjoy watching the Baltimore Police. Between their . . .

“Gun Task Force” https://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/crime-law-justice/law-enforcement/gun-trace-task-force-ORGOVV00038-topic.html which may have committed more crimes than any other police unit in US history, and their . . .

“Space to Destroy” https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/04/25/baltimore-mayor-gave-those-who-wished-to-destroy-space-to-do-that/ policy during the riots, it’s hard to defend the Baltimore Police.

There are good cops, even in Baltimore, but this city has far more than its share of issues. That’s why we shot to the top in murder rate after our open-minded response to our self-inflicted riots.