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

[Mike Sloane]

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?]
>>

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