Ravenwood - 08/02/04 07:15 AM
This year the Virginia General Assembly passed a law making all of Virginia's firearms laws uniform throughout the state. With the three day waiting period imposed by Fairfax and Arlington counties out of the way, Northern Virginia held the first gun show in decades at the Dulles Expo Center this weekend.
The show opened at 9 AM Saturday, with your's truly showing up a fashionable 15 minutes late. When I arrived, to my amazement I discovered that so did the rest of Fairfax county. On both sides of the door were huge lines of people, which according to Channel 9 stretched for a half mile in each direction. I picked a line and started walking. It took me a full 10 minutes to walk to the end of it, which stretched from the front doorway all the way around to the shopping center next door. The astonished look on the shopkeeper's faces was enough to tell me that they had never seen crowds this big. A full 1 hour and 17 minutes later, I was walking into the first gun show Northern Virginia has seen in decades.
It was a good show, with plenty of tables. Several pro-gun state congressmen had tables set up for this year's election. The prices weren't too bad either, very competitive for Northern Virginia.
Now when I was in college, I purchased my first gun at age 18. It was a Chinese SKS 56 that set me back $120 on my credit card. A few weeks later, I sold the gun for beer money; a move I've regretted ever since. This weekend, I remedied that. Using the evil gun show loophole, I bought a nice Chinese SKS rifle from a private collector sans any background check. It has excellent wood with a fantastic finish, the parkerizing is excellent, and all the serial numbers match. It is a 1979 sharpshooter model with the original Chinese scope attached. For those of you who are wondering, I stole it for $195. My dealer was at the show so I showed it to him. He took a glance at it and told me it was only worth $150, but I think he's full of shit. Walking around the show I had several people offer to buy it off me, but I'm not making the same mistake twice.
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The downside is that now, Kim probably won't talk to me.
Category: Toys for Grownups
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I have a Yugo M59/66 and I like it also. How is that scope mounted? Is it a receiver cover mount?
I paid $130.00 for my Yugo and noted when I went back to the same weapons shop about 2 weeks later their Yugo's were going for over $200.00.
I would say you got a fairly good deal.
dzimmerm
Posted by: dzimmerm at August 2, 2004 11:31 PMThe scope was apparently mounted at the factory. It looks like a normal receiver cover with a small rail attached to the left side. I think they just drilled two holes and put in little allen screws. The scope sits slightly off to the left, so if I want I can still use the open sights without removing it.
Not that removing it is that hard. You just twist the thumb screw and the scope slides right off the rail. (It's only a 2.4x power scope, nothing all that exciting. )
Posted by: Ravenwood at August 3, 2004 8:11 AM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
