What piqued your interest about military surplus?

[Eaglelord17]

Always enjoyed history, when I was younger the Russian Revolution and subsequent rise of Communism interested me. When I was finally able to get a gun I decided I wanted a SKS (partially because it was a military firearm, partially because I had been told by some friends they were a lot of fun). My dad said for my first gun he would buy it as long as it wasn't one of those Commie pieces of crap, but I was insistent and paid for it myself. Fast forward a year after that he also had to have one because 'for a Communist rifle it is actually pretty good'. Since then my interest has only expanded.