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So, I've developed a fascination with automatics that feed from magazines in front of the trigger. I think when there is a new shipment into the US, I'll acquire a threaded .380 ACP/9㎜ Corto version of the vz61 as a stable mate to the SBRed one I have in .32 ACP / 7.65㎜ Br. (CzechPoint says the soonest is autumn, so it will be a little while, and I might have wandered off to another fascination by then. Who knows.) And I'm always on a look out for a good Mauser C/96 or an Astra clone.
For purely giggle-related purposes I started checking Gunbroker on Intratec Tec-9s. I know they are total junk, but if one could be obtained cheaply, it would be hilarious and fit the genre mentioned above. But they don't go on the cheap; far from it, in fact. I routinely am seeing them final sales price close to and in some cases over a grand. It isn't a fluke of one auction; most I've seen end up in the $800—1,300 range. There is no way I'd drop that kind of money on a pile of crap like that family of handguns. But I am left puzzled why they would have buyers in that zone.
I've seen a few other off-beat, poor quality guns go for prices that were surprising. Quality pieces selling for top dollar in this market is hardly a surprise, but junk ... does not compute. Anyone seen garbage guns going for surprising rates?
For purely giggle-related purposes I started checking Gunbroker on Intratec Tec-9s. I know they are total junk, but if one could be obtained cheaply, it would be hilarious and fit the genre mentioned above. But they don't go on the cheap; far from it, in fact. I routinely am seeing them final sales price close to and in some cases over a grand. It isn't a fluke of one auction; most I've seen end up in the $800—1,300 range. There is no way I'd drop that kind of money on a pile of crap like that family of handguns. But I am left puzzled why they would have buyers in that zone.
I've seen a few other off-beat, poor quality guns go for prices that were surprising. Quality pieces selling for top dollar in this market is hardly a surprise, but junk ... does not compute. Anyone seen garbage guns going for surprising rates?