My "Room Broom" MAC 10

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Bill Marsh

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The SMG thread is getting a bit long, so I though I'd start a new one. Here are pictures of my MAC 10 9mm. I have had this a very long time.

I got a Federal Tax Stamp and went the whole legal route. Took them a long time to clear me because I sent them pictures I had taken in one of those booths where you put in some money, make faces and then get a little strip of pictures. I wonder they gave me the license at all! Wow, I was one crazy looking guy to get a license to buy a sellective fire -- single shot or full auto submachine gun.

This little sucker will empty a 32 riound clip in 1.6 SECONDS! Recoil is not bad, much like a garden hose except bullets come out instead of water!

The shoulder leather (De Santis) holds the gun on your right and two 32 round clips on the left. Altogether you can carry 96 rounds.

With my CCW Georgia permit I could carry it, but I sure don't. THAT might be hard to explain even if I am legal.

A butt-ugly but effective weapon. Not as technically adanced as a Glock, but ugly and efficient. I think that the SEALS did and maybe still use them. Fill it full of sand underwater. It still will work when you need it.
 

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I've always had a soft spot for the ugly little MAC 10. The movie subbie of the 80's:) Like all things that are good, it relates to video games. This little gun a cult favorite of mine to use on Rainbow Six: Vegas. If we're winning map after map, my buddies and I switch to Spray and Pray mode since you can't hit a dang thing with it that is more than 30 yards away. We call it going "Dope Man" since the MAC 10 is supposedly a favorite (or at least used to be) of drug pushing gangstas. (There was also a popular rap song about 10 years ago called "Dope Man" by a rapper that calls himself MAC 10)
That's a sweet rig, Bill:) I'd wear over a bath robe when I went out to get the sunday paper...and maybe an eyepatch.

Jake
 
Holy cr- you actually *are* the man, Bill. :eek:

So expensive... but so cool... Don't you collect lantankas, too? Dang, you gots the best toys.


Mike
 
Very cool toy! The range that I used to work at had a Mac 10 9mm and a vintage (original small frame) MAC 11 .380 for rent. I used to demo the MAC 11 a lot and it was FAST! Locked into it with the stock extended I could put 7-8 rounds in the head of a b-27 target at 15 feet with just a twitch of the trigger. People would go nuts and just have to shoot it and end up spraying the walls, ceiling, everything! Have you tried one of the 22lr conversion uppers that feed from Ruger 10/22 mags?
 
There is a company that makes (or made) a RPD upper that would accept the trigger group/houseing assembly of a MAC10 or 11. They were working on an M60 upper, but I think it never made it to market.

It may have been a PKM instead of an RPD. I have slept since I last saw one.
 
One of the collection I used to have of Class 3 was a .45 Powder Springs...*that's* vintage. Nice effective little pieces.
 
Got quite a bit of press around the early eighties when the drug wars really started to heat up. All the bad Tony Montana types wanted or had one.
Sadly, few people are able to own fully automatic weapons today.
Is there a way for you to transfer possession in any way or does it get demilled when you die?
 
Sutcliffe said:
Got quite a bit of press around the early eighties when the drug wars really started to heat up. All the bad Tony Montana types wanted or had one.
Sadly, few people are able to own fully automatic weapons today.
Is there a way for you to transfer possession in any way or does it get demilled when you die?
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I got this from a major MAC dealer, the Eucliid Ave Pawn shop. I don't know what will happen to it when I die. The only way to transfer possession is if another person buys the stamp/license, which does mean being fingerprinted and cleared by the BATF and then getting a one-tme special license for each weapon.

You go to the dealer. Pay for the weapon (it was about $600, in 1982), pay $200 for the stamp, get fingerprinted by a local police department. Then all paperwork is sent to the ATF. When you are apporved, you get the gun.

They also sold suppressors, but they required another $200 tax/stamp license unless the suppressor was made and intregal part of the gun, ie, welded to it.

Here is the picture on the license. Xerox copy, but still pretty strange. I got the paperwork and purchase done July 10, 1982, before the ban. No wonder they took twice the time to check me out! Even though this is me in 1982, I would not have issued a license to own a full-auto submachine gun to somone who looked it this!

The penalties for having an unregistered "selective fire" or "Type 3" weapon were, in 1982, $10,000 fine and ten years in jail. I asked a cop recently what were the penalties now. He just stated, "Could be worse. It depends on what someone was doing with it."

I keep it secured.
 

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Bill Marsh said:
The penalties for having an unregistered "selective fire" or "Type 3" weapon were, in 1982, $10,000 fine and ten years in jail. I asked a cop recently what were the penalties now. He just stated, "Could be worse. It depends on what someone was doing with it."

I keep it secured.
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i thought at least in my area, it's much simpler. gun ownership is easy. i goto a store and buy one and come home. carrying requires a simple $10 permit. shall issue for the most part.

nearby VT is "cash and carry", no licenses or nuttin. plus i think you get a property tax discount if you have a long gun :)

as for fed3... i thought you just applied, and there's an option for "collector" if you own more than a few. i'll ask... a local range as MP5s for check-out.

mmm, MP-5 :) though lately i'd like to spend a day with a P90 and be trained on it.

bladite
 
Bladite said:
i thought at least in my area, it's much simpler. gun ownership is easy. i goto a store and buy one and come home. carrying requires a simple $10 permit. shall issue for the most part.

nearby VT is "cash and carry", no licenses or nuttin. plus i think you get a property tax discount if you have a long gun :)

as for fed3... i thought you just applied, and there's an option for "collector" if you own more than a few. i'll ask... a local range as MP5s for check-out.

mmm, MP-5 :) though lately i'd like to spend a day with a P90 and be trained on it.

bladite
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First, I would LOVE to buy a FN P90 in selective fire. Those are the coolest looking guns! But I think that buying full auto guns made after 1985 is restricted to LEOs and Military. I could be wrong. :confused:

The ammo I saw at the gun show for the FN P90 was $40 a box for 50 rounds! It was not the armor piercing kind. It was the cheapo stuff. :eek: :eek: I think that the armor piercing kind is regulated anhyow. Should be. I have no desire for crap like that to be available easily to the bad guys.

Don't know when the MP5 was originally made. Could be pre-1985 ban. (Federal Ban, not state). I think it is becasue I saw one with an intregal suppressor at a gun show for only $17,500!! :eek: :eek:

I can easliy buy a suppressed rifle here for about $700 in .22 cal. (Got to have the $200 tax stamp/paperwork, still) Suppressed or silenced weapons fall in the same category as full auto/selective fire/Type 3. But the selective fire is getting harder to find.

Also need to get "sub-sonic ammo" to avoid the "crack" of a supersonic bullet. Seems like a lot of trouble to plink squirrels in your back yard!

There is a "Type III" collector license, but you still may have to comply with Fed Regs. Also the "Type 3" FFL collector/curio license may not be for full auto. I am a bit fuzzy here. :confused: Would appreciate your finding out and let us know. :)

My best recollection was that getting full auto guns in 1982 was carefullty regulated. I would imagine --- I would HOPE ---- that it has gotten tougher since then!

I would not want to screw around with the BATF. Those guys are serious. :eek:
 
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