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So I had posted this on http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?506129-My-Family-s-1903-Colt-32-History&p=4357345#post4357345
(Pics at site)
I have this Colt rimless smokeless .32 that has been in my family since my dad's father got it. The thing is, it's got a pretty interesting story behind how he got it, and the details behind the pistol itself.
For starters, the story behind my grandfather's obtaining of the pistol: He worked as a regular office worker in the early 1900's and not much really would happen. One day his coworker had gotten a brand new pistol mail ordered to him. He had took the pistol into his office and closed the door to fiddle with it. As my grandfather continued to work he heard a BANG and rushed to his coworker's office to find a bullet hole in the ceiling and a near deaf and frightened employee. He went straight up to my grandfather and said "Here, you can have this! I don't want anything to do with it anymore!" And that is how our family heirloom for three generations was given to us.
Now what makes this pistol so special isn't just the fact that my grandfather got it in an accident, but that the pistol came with- and still currently has- all parts, accessories, documentation, papers, and even the box. That's not all, either. When it was passed down into my hands, I took the liberty to do as much research as I could to find what I could about the pistol. What I found was that this isn't an ordinary Colt .32 rimless, this pistol just so happens to be an original, first generation, 4-digit serial number colt with the original ornate grips and refined grips. I have yet to find any other colt .32 even remotely similar at any gun show, and only one or two at most online. I haven't even seen a first model colt .32 come through Rock Island Auction House's auctions. This was really something for me to learn, and the condition is really something to behold considering it's been around for 116 years. I always make sure now to clean it to the best of my abilities whenever I fire it and I truly am grateful to have the opportunity to have it. I currently have a nice hand made leather holster for it now.
K..
That's pretty sweet. You can find type 1s on gunbroker (there are several up right now) but rarely in nice condition. You've still got some of dat fire blue on the trigger, looks like.
I wanted the shorter type 2 barrel when I bought mine.
Either way it's a neat little gun, with cool history in general.
Post those fucked up bubba or dindu guns!! Anything that looks like shit or anything that makes your eyeballs itch!! Fucked up mosins from armslist are welcome as well!!
>INB4 brony mauser
>>29829226
Please stop typing like that. You sound like a very old man, or a very young child.
>>29829263
Sorry man!! My bad!
Alright, so kind of story time
>be me
>20
>in Wisconsin
>Find guy on armslist selling some stuff
>Savage Axis 30-06
>Super Comanche .45 Colt/.410 gauge
>contact him
>he tells me $380 for both
Fast forward
>waiting for him in local park
>he drives up
>shows me the guns
>bore on the comanche is kinda bad but it's a funny gun so I said alright.
>Savage is pristine
>asks if I'm 21
>"20"
>"ya gotta be 21 to buy handguns"
>explain how private sale works
>he requests to take a picture of my drivers license
>sells me the guns
>go home
First time buying off Armslist. Did I fuck up somehow? Should I have let him take a picture of my driver's license?
>>29829121
Lolololololololololol
RIP
>>29829121
>he requests to take a picture of my drivers license
Enjoy your house being robbed and your identity theft
>Inb4 moral is horrific and conscription
>>29829113
Well murica is still scared of them so yeah.
Not really. If they fixed their shithole and made their country worth fighting for their troops would have better morale and they would have more money to use in their cold war army.
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>>29829077
>>29828237
am i right for thinking this?
AIT is super hard guise
Do recruiters care if you're 22 and have a liberal arts degree? pls no bully
I have an idea. Instead of the fiddly wires and catapults on aircraft carriers why not install one massive wind tunnel on the deck? You fly into it with some panels up on your plane and the drag slows you down. To leave you just fly the other way with the panels up to get a boost for takeoff. I don't see why this is a bad idea, you can create hurricane force winds in a wind tunnel and hurricane force winds can blow a gliding plane to a standstill.
Energy inefficient, fucks with your aerodynamics and would prevent simultaneous take-offs and landings.
>>29829106
>Energy inefficient
Who cares if it werks? Plenty space for more fuel
>fucks with your aerodynamics
Planes can fly fine in a tailwind, fucking with aerodynamics is good if you are going the other way and trying to slow down.
>prevent simultaneous take-offs and landings.
Make two wind tunnels.
>>29829181
>Plenty space for more fuel
No.
>fucking with aerodynamics is good if you are going the other way and trying to slow down.
No.
>Make two wind tunnels.
So quarter your flights per unit time? No.
Are there women in the VDV?
>>29829039
>implying
Yes
Hey /k/ how ya doing. So I need some help, I'm a Pennsylvanian living in California at the moment. Been out here for several months for work and i'll be going home in several months. However me and some of my friends decided we want to go shooting problem is I don't have a gun.
How can I legally acquire a gun in the state of California when I am from Pennsylvania? I have friends here. Could I have him buy the gun and do a private party transaction? Please /k/ i've been looking for help online but the laws here are so fucking confusing.
>P.S. only looking to buy a Moist Nugget since it's just for a range day and I don't feel like dropping a shit load of cash on a bullet buttoned abomination of an AR
bumping this thread.
>>29828993
Just rent at the range and avoid the bullshit.
>>29829556
by range day i meant private property so....
Ok, let's say you weren't all completely insane and could pass the tests without dribbling on yourself.
If you could join any regiment, core, special force, shit even a police department of your choosing from any country in any time period what would you choose?
pic related USAF Pararescue
Then why don't you join the air force you underage fuck
>>29828959
Just out of curiosity, I want to learn how to do what Delta does.
>>29829001
This, but with SAD Paramilitaries.
What are the quality of street weapons in your area?
>>29828872
How did that even function?
>>29828872
We better not have these fucking police confiscation shit tickets in America like they are in Britain
>>29828872
Mexicans, they basically all carry one of these.
>>29828872
that shouldent even count as a gun, no way it could fire.
It's 1861. War has broken out between the Northern states of the Union and the Southern states of the Confederacy. Both sides call out for volunteers to sign up for the military as soon as possible.
What do you?
Sign up with North? Go fight for the South? Or are you like those dirty Irish immigrants who keep on dodging the draft?
>>29828720
sign with the north
i'm not a racist
>>29828720
Run to California and live in Peace. Barring that, there's also Canada
What's the most modern firearm that could be produced on 1860s machinery and metallurgy or without a serious overhaul of the gun industry of the time?
Alright fellow New Jerseyans of /k/ I need some help
Recently, my dad found his old Red Rider BB gun in the basement, just like pic related, and I would love to go in the backyard and shoot soda cans with it if it weren't for one small thing.
I happen to live in New Jersey, one of only 2 states (other being Rhode Island) to classify BB guns as firearms, meaning all laws that apply to firearms apply to BB guns.
So really I have no idea how to use this in my backyard and buy ammo for it without getting arrested.
Do I need to go into the woods and be at least 450 away from all buildings to use it?
Do I need to smuggle BB's across the Pennsylvania border to get ammo for it?
Do I need to get a Firearms Identification Card to possess it?
Do I need to register the damn thing?
I know NJ gun laws are beyond fucked and I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on the subject.
>inb4 /nogunz/ gtfo
>>29828589
Just buy BBs at Walmart and shoot it in your backyard. You don't have shit neighbors do you?
>>29828613
People have been arrested for doing just that, that's why I'm worried.
" As recently as October, a man was arrested in New Jersey for shooting an airsoft gun at a rubber duck for target practice, in his own yard. Idyriss Thomas, 22, was arrested in Glassboro, N.J., after police responded to multiple 911 calls from neighbors who reported seeing a man with a gun. Once police determined the gun was unlicensed, Thomas was taken to jail and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/10/bb-gun-control-in-new-jersey-kids-rite-passage-could-mean-felony.html
I guess they're alright but who knows
South Dakota law will be a test case for a US Internet sales tax - PCWorld
https://apple.news/AIEMxp7tBPFGkT1Prorb9pw
Dunzo
brick and mortar stores are still going to get their shit kicked because online warehouses have much less overhead costs.
>>29828521
Jesus fuck. South Dakota just decided to piss on everybody huh.
What a bunch of faggots. Somehow I doubt shit like this will move forward. It affects too many big companies, their financial backers and even their own citizens. It would be pretty funny if people just stopped selling to people there though.
>>29828521
>Poll Taxes
SSDD
What is the worst thing about the firearms market, and why is it the picatinny rail?
How tactical out of 10 are you?
How many meters of unused rails do you have?
I don't have any quad-rail faggot shit, but currently have about 25-30" of unused railing across 2 AR's & Savage bolt gun scope mount
>>29828511
I have a quadrail on my AR but I just have a humble foregrip on it.
>picatinny rail
>not keymod
halp I need more tacti call RAILZ for all of my ACCESSORIES and tactical OPERATOR EQUIPMENT and GEAR
1. What's the most dangerous area in your state/country?
2. With your present loadout, could you clear it out?
I live in the most dangerous area in my Province.
No.
In Houston Texas, do I go 5th ward or Mexican border?
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