IMA has MG34 recievers. Front and rear only no middle section for $200!
What the heck.
Holy crap IMA 34 recievers
Here are some things to think about regarding the current cost of parts.
1) Overseas supplies are drying up at a rapid rate
2) The United Nations is making it a politically incorrect decision for countries to sell off their war surplus to the collector market.
3) Our State Department, in concert with the BATFE, is making importation of parts kits very difficult if not impossible.
4) The collector market is far larger than it was just 3 years ago.
For example – 18 months ago I was involved with trying to get 1,000 ZB30 parts kits imported. The form 6 was submitted in Jan 2005 but not approved until June of 2005. We had been working with the foreign government all this time but by December we still had not gotten an export license. The reason given was that the leadership of this government kept changing but I’d be willing to bet the UN was placing monetary pressure on them so they just stalled issuing the permit until the barrel/receiver ban went into effect.
These kits were all in transit cases and the US Agricultural Department got involved because the chest were made of wood and there is a ban on wood imports from some parts of the world. Getting the chest in was going to be a major problem even though they were 70 + years old.
Needless to say, the project was dropped and the weapons remained overseas. Odds are the controlling government took the UN payoff and destroyed the weapons in their country.
If you could get the importers to discuss these type of situations you’d find that this is not uncommon and the net result is that what is making it into the country now is a small fraction of what was coming in just 2 years ago.
You may as well get used to the higher prices – There are simply no or few replacements being imported so what’s in country now is going to go up in value on an almost daily basis.
Regards,
Orin
1) Overseas supplies are drying up at a rapid rate
2) The United Nations is making it a politically incorrect decision for countries to sell off their war surplus to the collector market.
3) Our State Department, in concert with the BATFE, is making importation of parts kits very difficult if not impossible.
4) The collector market is far larger than it was just 3 years ago.
For example – 18 months ago I was involved with trying to get 1,000 ZB30 parts kits imported. The form 6 was submitted in Jan 2005 but not approved until June of 2005. We had been working with the foreign government all this time but by December we still had not gotten an export license. The reason given was that the leadership of this government kept changing but I’d be willing to bet the UN was placing monetary pressure on them so they just stalled issuing the permit until the barrel/receiver ban went into effect.
These kits were all in transit cases and the US Agricultural Department got involved because the chest were made of wood and there is a ban on wood imports from some parts of the world. Getting the chest in was going to be a major problem even though they were 70 + years old.
Needless to say, the project was dropped and the weapons remained overseas. Odds are the controlling government took the UN payoff and destroyed the weapons in their country.
If you could get the importers to discuss these type of situations you’d find that this is not uncommon and the net result is that what is making it into the country now is a small fraction of what was coming in just 2 years ago.
You may as well get used to the higher prices – There are simply no or few replacements being imported so what’s in country now is going to go up in value on an almost daily basis.
Regards,
Orin
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