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Uncle Goose
Location: Ghent, Belgium Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
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| | | | Any Mosin Nagant fans here?? < on 11/25/2009 12:05 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I always wanted to have a Mosin Nagant (I love Russian military stuff) but until recently the only legit way to have one is either buy them deactivated (read "throw away you money on a worthless piece of wood and metal") or try to get a permit (which was nearly impossible unless you were already collecting guns since the stone age). Times has changed and recently the government here published a list with so called "obsolete" weapons for which you don't need a permit anymore and the Mosin Nagant was amongst them. So now I have a fully working one and I love it! It's an M91/30 made in 1943 by Izhevsk. I has been refurbished by an Ukraine depot somewhere in the 1970's and it's completely number matching. Unfortunately firing won't be an option at this moment because you need an expensive permit (pure governmental rip-off, it's just to make more money off our backs as crimes are not committed with an old style bolt action rifle) and you have to be in an even more expensive shooting club to prove you shoot regularly (the argument of "I don't want to shoot regularly, just a few rounds to know the feel of the riffle" doesn't seem to count here). Then you also have to do a written and practical examination, which I wouldn't mind doing to make it legit but the whole construction of having to pay big €'s for a license and shooting club makes this just for the utterly rich people around here. So, I won't be shooting her until I can score some ammo on the black market (which is not easy over here, .22LR I can get plenty but 7.62x54R seems a little bit harder). Well, anyway, here she is: Had to use the door, the weapon is so long that I don't have a white paper big enough to photograph it. Pump stick is still present, I have been told it's hard to get the right size for the right riffle. Very little wear. Nicely marked with the Izhevsk mark and the serial number GA5213. On the side (not visible on the photographs) there is also a proof mark of the test-bench of Liege that the weapon passed inspection in 1996.
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| Uncle Goose
Location: Ghent, Belgium Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
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| | | | Re: Any Mosin Nagant fans here?? < Reply # 4 on 11/25/2009 6:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by DevilC Is it legal to ship ammo to Belgium? If there is a legal way, I will ship it to you. Research it, let me know.
| In theory there isn't a legal way, I'm prohibited to have any ammo. I guess you are save on your side of the ocean but for me it's something else. I would take the risk however if there is no other option left, after all there are coming so many packages inside Belgium that they can't check them all and dogs can't sniff ammo. To think of, even if they would come knocking on my door I still can deny it saying I don't know any Americans and certainly none who would send me stuff like that . But this is only as a last resort, at this moment I got word of someone who has the contacts to get me the ammo, I will wait and see how that turns out first. Long live the black market. And concerning legality, If the government allows shipping vast amounts of weapons made by FN Herstal to high risk countries then I see no problem for myself importing some stuff. The funny thing is that the chick who decides all these laws is a hypocrite herself, she says she wants to tighten the gun laws (like they are not tight enough already) but on the other hand she is knee deep in the FN business because hey, she's from Walloon and guess where FN lies, indeed Walloon.
[last edit 11/25/2009 6:20 PM by Uncle Goose - edited 2 times]
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