Anyone looking for a fully-auto .308 ?

[Hall]

AIM Surplus included this in one of their e-mails a little over a week ago and it would normally be unusual as they don't include one-offs in their "internet" marketing. Items like this would typically be in their showroom and known to local, walk-in shoppers, but I can see why they'd market it to a larger audience.

Hard Times

It's been available for just over a week and I'm actually shocked it hasn't sold yet !

 

[AZjeff]

At $30k the potential customer base is pretty small but if that's your thing...

 

[I<3oil]

I mean, yeah, who isn’t? But at $30k, I’m good for now.

 

[demarpaint]

I'll take two...........

 

[f355spider]

Machine guns have been decent investments the past decade or so. A couple friends have been very happy with their decision to break into collecting them. Fully transferable is a limited number of available inventory.

 

[shortyb]

Full auto .308 with hard stock and no buffer? Good luck keeping that on paper .

 

[k1xv]

After I paid for the gun, I could never afford the ammo to run it full auto.

 

[Hall]

But at $30k, I’m good for now.

There are folks out there. I'm really surprised it hasn't sold already.

I'll take two...........

Fully transferable is a limited number of available inventory.

They only have (1). I tried adding (2) to my cart and it tells you they don't have enough.

 

[JohnnyG]

Add the $2000.00 tax stamp from the ATF (if it's still that low) and the fact that Accurate Arms Powder facility just blew up, I don't think I could afford it.
Well, I could, but I doubt I could afford to feed it.

 

[Kira]

Learn to reload.

 

[f355spider]

Add the $2000.00 tax stamp from the ATF (if it's still that low) and the fact that Accurate Arms Powder facility just blew up, I don't think I could afford it.
Well, I could, but I doubt I could afford to feed it.

$200 tax stamp for transfers. The factory was Accurate Energetic Systems...they manufactured explosives for the military and commericial market. They have nothing to do with Accurate small arms powder, which is now owned by Hodgdon.

 

[burbguy82]

Full auto .308 with hard stock and no buffer? Good luck keeping that on paper .

Right.

I have fired a real M14, full auto, and it is useless, honestly. In general, other than the most dire circumstances, full auto out of a full power shoulder fired weapon is useless.

One can be more combat effective with single shots, carefully aimed.

Most importantly, the gun in question here is very ugly.

 

[burbguy82]

The best platform if someone wants a full auto gun, IMO, is the M16......as the lower is the serialized gun, and there are no overly special tools required to change a barrel. The only thing that can die is the upper, normally, and that is replaceable for maybe $500 max. Most others require specialized stuff to rebarrel, and like in the case os the M14, the barrel would have to be re headspaced to the existing bolt. A crack in the cast reciever, and the 30K investment is dead.

 

[Astro14]

The tax stamp is $200, isn’t it?

 

[WeyounDS9]

Cool, but not real practical.
Now if it was a full auto M249 SAW it might generate more interest as that would bring some combat power to the table.
And yes full auto firearms are expensive to train with.

 

[JavierH19]

If I wanted something full auto and had 30k to spend it wouldn't be that platform. Nothing wrong with it but not worth it at least to me.

 

[Hall]

The tax stamp is $200, isn’t it?

Yes

 

[burbguy82]

The tax stamp is $200, isn’t it?

supposed to be 0 in Jan 26, but we will see

 

[Astro14]

supposed to be 0 in Jan 26, but we will see

I thought that change was just for suppressors and SBRs. Does it apply to auto as well?

 

[Hall]

Does it apply to auto as well?

Nope, they are excluded from the change