Mega Rad Gun Thread

I saw a couple posts asking about cost effective fingerprinting options. Sharing my approach here:

1. Buy an ink pad for $5 (example)
2. Download and print out several copies of a FD-258 form. You can use standard 8x11 printer paper for these.
3. Watch a tutorial or two and practice until the results look crisp. You only need the 4 finger slaps and thumb prints, no need to do each finger individually,
4. Scan the form on a 600+ DPI scanner. You can generally get this done for free at a public library or UPS store. Save the result as a PDF.
5. Use https://eft.firearm.tools/ to generate the EFT file. The project is open source so feel free to follow the github link and run the generation software locally/offline.

Save the the generated EFT fingerprint somewhere secure. The file will be attached to each eForms application along with a passport style selfie photo. Let me know if you have any questions, I have many approved stamps from the ATF using this approach.
Edit: quotes aren't working for some reason so cc @gernig @Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
 
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As an FYI to any history autists: there are once again a bunch of Beretta 1934s floating around the U.S. gun market for low prices. This happens every five or so years. They're mostly post-1950s, but still identical to the ones produced during WW2. The U.S. import laws require that these guns are circumcised before they're brought in, but you can buy intact barrels online. I don't know what the rationale for that is. According to Forgotten Weapons (vid below) imports are judged on a points system and barrel length is part of that. They're usually between 200-400 dollars in varying conditions.
Here's one I have from 1948 along with a reproduction holster:
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Forgotten Weapons vid where he mentions the import laws:
 

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seal said:
As an FYI to any history autists: there are once again a bunch of Beretta 1934s floating around the U.S. gun market for low prices. This happens every five or so years. They're mostly post-1950s, but still identical to the ones produced during WW2. The U.S. import laws require that these guns are circumcised before they're brought in, but you can buy intact barrels online. I don't know what the rationale for that is. According to Forgotten Weapons (vid below) imports are judged on a points system and barrel length is part of that. They're usually between 200-400 dollars in varying conditions.
Here's one I have from 1948 along with a reproduction holster:
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Forgotten Weapons vid where he mentions the import laws:
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Links?
I'm not seeing any in stock at the usual places.
 
DocAwe said:
We won't get anything.
Once the war is "over" it will all be Russian territory and those sanctions aren't going away any time soon.
We'll get new guns from China first.
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At this pace, it will take until approximately 2090s for Russia to fully conquer Ukraine, so it won't be an issue for any of us in either case. Ukraine has been gaining more territory back than what Russia has been getting since the late summer of 2022.
 
Foley said:
At this pace, it will take until approximately 2090s for Russia to fully conquer Ukraine, so it won't be an issue for any of us in either case. Ukraine has been gaining more territory back than what Russia has been getting since the late summer of 2022.
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I don't really care.
It needs to end so these cocksuckers quit giving them all my stolen tax money.
Wishful thinking yeah.
 
quaawaa said:
The big one is Ukraine. We're going to get the most diverse supply of surplus in history once the war is over.
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Aren’t Ukrainians sticking with their AK74’s and M4’s?

Regardless, don’t count on ever seeing those donated FNC’s and the like. Some corrupt colonel will sell them off onto the black market if they’re not destroyed.

Such a travesty what happened to those FAMAS rifles.
 
Martys_not_smarty said:
Should have gotten a gray guns short reset instead, night and day difference in reset got one in mine and its the best investment you can get.
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I have multiple, one in my usp ive been using for competition and one in my p2000. Im keeping the usp compact as stock as possible with the internals.
 
Taser Confetti said:
Aren’t Ukrainians sticking with their AK74’s and M4’s?
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They are sucking up all the small arms and ammunition they can. which is bad for us since the vast majority of "russian" surplus was actually coming out of Ukraine. The USSR's forward war reserve stockpiles were there for the most part to be closer to the front.

(The Russians didn't trust the East Germans, Polish, baltics etc)
 
Taser Confetti said:
Aren’t Ukrainians sticking with their AK74’s and M4’s?

Regardless, don’t count on ever seeing those donated FNC’s and the like. Some corrupt colonel will sell them off onto the black market if they’re not destroyed.

Such a travesty what happened to those FAMAS rifles.
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I do wonder if this means we can get the Finnish stockpiles of comblock ammo and rk 95/62Ms parts kits since theyre switching over to SAKO AR15 variants in 556
 
quaawaa said:
The big one is Ukraine. We're going to get the most diverse supply of surplus in history once the war is over.
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I might be wrong but don't their export laws basically make that impossible? I know back during the start of the war they had to cut the blade off ak bayonets they were selling as fundraisers due to their weapon export laws. I don't think anyone outside eurostan will be seeing anything, and even those in europe will be getting them off the black market.
 
JimJams1998 said:
I might be wrong but don't their export laws basically make that impossible? I know back during the start of the war they had to cut the blade off ak bayonets they were selling as fundraisers due to their weapon export laws. I don't think anyone outside eurostan will be seeing anything, and even those in europe will be getting them off the black market.
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Well, either way everything would have to be torch cut to get imported to the US if it had select fire capability (barrels are fine to import now though) Mosins would have no problems, millions of them came into the US from Ukraine all ready. Ammo etc would be easy. I believe i read that the Ukrainians want to got to the NATO cartridges post war anyway so they'd need to sell the Russian shit anyway.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
I believe i read that the Ukrainians want to got to the NATO cartridges post war anyway so they'd need to sell the Russian shit anyway.
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(Assuming they survive this war) they’d be retarded not to. If they were even more intelligent they’d start producing their own locally built M4 clone but they’ll probably go Slava ukulele and make some ugly AR18 monstrosity.
 
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