HUMOR? - Everything you wanted in a .50bmg but a Lever...

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:24 pm

Rust camo pattern, check.
Taped on handguard, check.
Ability to turn into a frag grenade and self destruct, check.
Questionable legality, check.
All for around $200.

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displ ... um=8625823

But boy can Bubba Build a gun...

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:29 pm

What is scrap steel going for these days? I dont want to be any where near that thing when it fires(blows)!!

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:44 pm

I think it would make a nice centerpiece in the garden.

...with birds sittin' on it...

... crappin'...

Basswrangler · Post by **Basswrangler** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:39 pm

You gotta be kidding me....

Who knows, maybe it's a rock solid rifle, just unfinished. If it were polished out and didn't have that silly looking M16 forearm, it might not look so...."unprofessional." Still, I hope the buyer doesn't live anywhere near me.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:56 pm

C'mon fellas, where's your sense of adventure? I'll bet I could fit a lever off my Marlin to it and affix my spare Winchester magazine tube on it somewhere to make it work.

Iron_Marshal · Post by **Iron_Marshal** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:10 pm

OMG, HOW can this thing be legal? IF it is legal HOW CAN it be SAFE? He welded a (previously) removable front grip from an M-16 onto the thing just to make it look cool. It serves no purpose. Then there is the fact that is must weigh 90 pounds and be six feet long. What a piece of pelosi...

IF the seller is legal he ought to be ashamed of himself. If he is illegal, he ought to go to jail..for risking the safety of the buyer! I would not worry about the rifle hurting anyone but the person behind the trigger.

Gun Runner · Post by **Gun Runner** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:47 pm

Not only does the gun look like a piece of $hit, his home made knives dont look much better.

Gun Runner

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:41 am

Man that is scary. Some poor soul is going to try using that fool contraption and blow themselves up!

gundownunder · Post by **gundownunder** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:10 am

Man that is scary. Some poor soul is going to try using that fool contraption and blow themselves up!

Anyone fool enough to pull the trigger on that thing should be blown up, otherwise the fool might breed

Texican · Post by **Texican** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:49 am

Good Lord!

Who the He77 would bid $350 on a self-obliterating jack handle?!! I can almost hear the lucky winner: "I gots me a Fitty!! I pert near stole it from the recovering amnesiac who almost built it."

Although, at the same time it's nice to see the use of the old 'brain damaged seller' sales technique. There used to be a used car salesman north of town that had the same pitch.

I see a Darwin award story coming...

deerwhacker444 · Post by **deerwhacker444** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:07 am

Maybe Gunblast.com should buy it and do a full report..!

cnjarvis · Post by **cnjarvis** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:13 pm

Maybe he can mass produce them and sell them to the "splodeydopes"?

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:29 pm

cnjarvis wrote:Maybe he can mass produce them and sell them to the "splodeydopes"?

Oddly enough, I've seen both better, and worse, made and sold up in the Khyber Pass region...

sore shoulder · Post by **sore shoulder** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:41 pm

If the barrel is any good, it's worth $350. A decent used M2 barrel goes for over $500, so if it can be salvaged and rechambered I'd say it's worth it. However having seen that he welded all kinds of stuff to it, it's probably ruined. If that guy was a machinist, I hope I never bought anything he made, and he sure as heck isn't artistic nor is he imaginative. I also don't believe the story, nor do I think the person selling it is the original butcher.

505stevec · Post by **505stevec** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:21 pm

Wow what a piece of junk!!!

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:28 pm

Yep, that guy's definitely got drain bamage.

gundownunder wrote:
Man that is scary. Some poor soul is going to try using that fool contraption and blow themselves up!
Anyone fool enough to pull the trigger on that thing should be blown up, otherwise the fool might breed

That's the one thing about "science" that I totally agree with: Natural selection.

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:48 pm

I see nothing illegal here unless his locale prohibits .50s or he is unable to posses a weapon by law. Is this build as stupid and as ugly as the day is long? Yes. Illegal? No.

By BATFEandsometimesY reg you can build your own weapons provided YOU do the work YOURSELF (and can legally own a weapon, local jurisdictions don't forbid it, you don't put a happy switch on it unless you are a Class 2 or 7 manufacturer with an SOT stamp, yat-tata, yat-tata, yat-tata) and don't sell it UNLESS you properly mark it (manufacture name and sn) AND you don't make a habit of selling your home builds.

Plenty of folks with more time, talent, equipment and skill than I take the 80% AR15, 10/22, and 1911 receivers and legally turn them into functioning weapons. Same with the 80% (or less) AK receiver flats to build a semi-auto only AK copy or receiver tubes for building legal, semi-auto only SMG clones (either in pistol form to use the original length barrel, building a carbine version with a 16" bbl to avoid angering the revenooers with an unregistered SBR or just registering it as an SBR to keep the original look).

They grey areas are: How many builds per year contitue manufacturing and how many sales per year constitute manufacturing for sale?

I can see a liability issue with the sale listed but that's about it...

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:48 pm

awp101 wrote:I see nothing illegal here unless his locale prohibits .50s or he is unable to posses a weapon by law. Is this build as stupid and as ugly as the day is long? Yes. Illegal? No....

His Location says CA... aren't .50bmgs on the Cali "we hate you" list?

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:57 pm

Ah, I didn't look at the location. I had a hard time seeing anything after trying to poke out my mind's eye after seeing "it"...

I know CA banned fifty's but I think there was a grandfather clause. Maybe it falls under that? Or he could be as crazy as he sounds.