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This is no baloney,

I got mine way back on November 15, 1974... actually I got 168 of them at the same time from the then defunct L&H Gun Shop. Elmer Ballance had a little problem remembering to add guns to his bound book and many of those "lost guns" were full auto.

Needless to say Elmer became a "ward of the state" for a few years. Just before he left for "school" he sold me a 55 gallon oil drum full of Sistema Colts and motor oil... completely disaseembled and mixed.

A friend and I spend a couple of long afternoons matching up the parts and we ended up with over 99% with matching numbers... and even with the crude storage method, most were in very good to excellent condiion.

What did I pay for them? $10 each and I got to count them as Elmer couldn't remember how many were supposed to be in the drum... nope he didn't write it down or put it in his bound book, but, I did.

I sold the best ones for up to $250 and the worst ones for as little as $75, and yes I still have three of them, just for the heck of it and they are not for sale.

Another guy named Dennis (can't remember if that was his first or last name) owned Springfield Armory at the time and we bought literally hundreds of thousands of rounds of 9m/m and 22LR ammo also... for next to nothing.

Elmer got out of jail and went right back to work and was off to the big house once again.

He's old and deaf and finally out of jail and right back to messing with guns, but, he swears he'll never touch a machine gun or their parts again... we'll see.

Sorry to be long winded, but, this is a good story and true.