RIA 1917A1 Restoration (presented with no comments).

[browningautorifle]

Those are a couple of details of your law that have eluded me until now.

[MG34_Dan]

Those are a couple of details of your law that have eluded me until now.

Those were the good old days. But, sadly those days are no more and led to the fixed supply of transferrable machine guns. With a fixed supply and increasing demand we get rising prices. It's amazing how that works.

From the information I received with the weapon, I was told that the deactivated weapon sold for $50 back in '48. The museum bought it for $500 in '98. I bought it from the museum for $10,000 in '09.

The historical value of the activated C&R 1917 Brownings is displayed below:

[browningautorifle]

Those were the good old days.

I believe you. I bought a dewat 1928 in '98 for $500 CDN. I built the EIS with it a bit but still only paid $1000 for everything there. I sold it last year for $4000 plus shipping and paypal sellers premium... I watch Tom Bowers site and am aware of skyrocketing prices there...but at least you can do that.

[MG34_Dan]

I believe you. I bought a dewat 1928 in '98 for $500 CDN. I built the EIS with it a bit but still only paid $1000 for everything there. I sold it last year for $4000 plus shipping and paypal sellers premium... I watch Tom Bowers site and am aware of skyrocketing prices there...but at least you can do that.

Amazing, isn't it?

What that a '28 Thompson or '28 Colt Argentine water cooled machine gun?

[browningautorifle]

1928 Thompson SMG. Serial 68038.