Oh…and shipping is NOT included, Florida residents add 7% tax (even though sales tax is actually only 6% in this state) and of course…Firearm sales are Final.
P.S. $ 995,195.00 Who doesn’t want to pay close to a million dollars for a Tommy gun? Wow! Are these pesos rather than dollars? I have never seen anything like that.
Then it occured to me … . maybe they are “in the shop window” but not really for sale. Dude gets the appropriate FFL to collect machine guns (post-86) and then sets the prices up so he never moves product . . . but he can buy Post-86 & what is a sample if it doesn’t get fired . . . .?
You still would need a LE demo letter for each and every post sample you wanted to buy.
And a lot of dealers use a variation of your idea. They buy a MG for their “inventory” and mark it up say 25% above current market prices. If it never sells, no biggie as it was mostly a personal toy in the first place. If it does sell, no biggie buy another at current market prices and pocket the 25%.
The only thing that a 500% markup is going to do is guarantee nobody will ever buy anything from you or ever take you seriously. Keep in mind these aren’t transferables, so you aren’t gonna get a uninformed rich guy to buy one now and then by mistake. Only a FFL/SOT can buy pre86 dealer samples and generally they don’t have a half million dollars and if they did they will know that pre samples go for.
“All the H&K full auto trigger groups, bolt carriers and magazines have become restricted items and are no longer available for private purchase. Only items imported into the United States prior to January 19, 2009 can be sold to private individuals or even Class 2 or 3 dealers.”
The owner was a Physician of some type, well at least in the 1990’s when I contacted him. He used to run ads in the back of Guns & Ammo magazine.
I sold him a RAMO M2 50 BMG with tripod for $6,000…the going price in 1991 for an assembled RAMO 50. I used the money to buy 6 unassembled RAMO transferable sideplates for the M2, and the Manager of RAMO threw in a RAMO, actually ERMCO registered M2 carbine as a thank you to me.
I saw the Prestige Arms ad for the same RAMO I sold him, and he was asking $25,000 for it not two months later!
Like a friend of mine who still collects high end Class 3 stuff says, if we don’t do a deal now, I (meaning him) will buy it from your estate when you are gone…he also bought from Curtis Earl’s estate…mostly parts -so there is a ring of truth to it.
The new in the box M16A2’s are nice, but even the highest price paid for a Colt Thompson used by a legit Depression era Gangster went for less than 9% of what he is asking for his…and that was a record for Rock Island Auctions.
I say good luck to him, and I hope he has a good Tax accountant/Lawyer.
Yea but it’s “like” the gun they used in the St. Valentines Day Massacre. Maybe they found Al Capones actual finger prints somewhere near it. Thats how they justify the $0.99 million. For that price it better come with the violin case.