[AT] Some ads from the 4/1 Lancaster Farming

[Mark Greer]

Mike,
You have excellent taste in rifles. I have a 1956 carbine in 7x57. One of
the finest bolt action rifles made.
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 4/1 Lancaster Farming


> Mattias - I very much doubt that this guy wants anything more than
> decorative items for his collection of antique arms. Unfortunately, in
> this day and age, his hobby is likely to draw the attention of the
> government investigators. After all if little old ladies get strip
> searched after manicure scissors are discovered in their luggage at
> airports, you can imagine what happens to someone advertising that he is
> looking for a bazooka or mortar! :-)
>
> Back in the 1960s, I used to collect historic rifles, and I went to a
> dealer near New York to look for a particular one (an Austrian
> Mannlicher-Schoenauer). He has a few up on some higher shelves, and I
> had to climb up on what I thought were some old plumbing pipes to get up
> there. When I got down, I realized that they were WWII bazookas. He had
> all kinds of stuff sitting around, including anti-tank "recoilless"
> rifles, German 9 mm machine pistols, etc. Years later I read that he had
> been arrested while transporting a truck (lorry) load of armaments down
> to Florida for use by anti-Castro elements. I think that was the end of
> his operation called "Service Armaments, Inc."
>
> Mike
>
> Mattias Kessén wrote:
> > Anyone wanting a bazooka can't have carried one and it's ammunition
> > around for month's just to fire it and get a horsekick in front of the
> > king and some foreign VIP's  a few times;-) Or maybe he have fired one
> > and forgot to keep his head close to it :-o
> >
> > Mattias
> >
> > 2006/4/3, Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>:
> >
> >>Some of the more interesting ads from the (free to
> >>subscribers) Mailbox Markets section of the weekly Lancaster (PA)
> >>Farming newspaper for 4/1/2006. For the full listing, go to
> >><www.lancasterfarming.com>. [my comments, if any, are in brackets]
> >>
>
> >>
> >>Handguns any shape, any cond., wallhangers; swords any type, any cond.,
> >>looking for odd guns, mortors, bazookas, etc. New Castle Co.
> >>302-363-4854. [Does the Department of Homeland Security know about this
> >>guy?]
> >>
>
> -- 
> Mike Sloane
> Allamuchy NJ
> <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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> "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible,
> but man´s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
> Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), US theologian.
>
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