If I’m in possession of an antique, I’m going to do a little research before I give it away for next to nothing. Someone in Los Angeles wasn’t that smart.
Yes, that appears to be an authentic, World War II-era Sturmgewehr 44, the first-generation assault rifle. It’s worth perhaps $30,000 according to an estimate of the worth of another StG44 collected in a similar buy-back in Connecticut last year, but the LAPD doesn’t appear to have the class the Hartford PD did. Hartford allowed the rifle to be sold to collectors so that it could be preserved as the historical artifact that it is, and give the provider fair-market value.
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Wonder how fast that thing will disappear...
ReplyDeleteI'd relieve them of the responsibility. :)
DeleteIt was probably stolen.
ReplyDeleteIf it was, they sure could have gotten a lot more than $200 even if it was hot.
DeleteMakes me want to cry. That collectors item has vanished into some thugs safe.
ReplyDeleteYou can bet it was a dumb ass liberal that turned it in....anyone else would recognize it was not cheap junk and at least have a gun shop look at it and maybe even buy it.
ReplyDelete& just think, it was produced after Hitler turned it down, but when he became aware of it and was told by some troops how good it was, he let it go.
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