Unexpected Find

[OutAtTheEdge]

Back in the stone-age (okay, it was the 1980s) I briefly enjoyed a side gig as a licensed Class 3 dealer. For reasons I won't go into here, I dropped my license after only a few years, and a couple years after that, financial reality forced me to part with the few remaining guns in my possession. That was bad enough, but then about 15 years ago, the handful of photos I had documenting that part of my personal history just vanished.

Well, a couple months ago I killed some time one cold day, sorting through a couple big boxes of old forgotten photos, when much to my delight, I rediscovered a few long-lost machine-gun pictures.

Here we have an original H&K MP5 SD A3 with the 4-position fire control selector; Safe, semi, full, and 3 round burst.

And here, poised to defend the farm against...well, anything, I am shown firing a Royal Typewriter BAR M1918a2.



Ahhhh, the memories...

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I had a 9mm MAC-10 with can. 9mm's are all exciting for a while, but a BAR: the joy is never ending!

The area my kids grew up in, we'll call it a neighborhood of 3000 acres, several of us had full autos. On nice days in the fall the 9mm's would sing the high notes, the Thompsons, Risings, and Grease Guns would sing tenor & Alto. But the glorious base line was all BAR! An M-2/50 would have been nice for punctuation, but nobody had a backstop to handle that safely!

Ivan