Are you better-off investing in 'GOLD' - AMMO - or Antique Firearms .. Hard to say, as there are too many variables including ones personal priorities - but antiques & artwork can be very rewarding ..
Sam Colt Heads For The Dunny
I once sat next to a man in cattle-class on a 747 'Jumbo Jet' returning to NZ and we chatted for a while .. I said I liked motorbikes and would love to buy a classic collectible, something like a Vincent, Velocette, or a Manx Norton. He ended that conversation right there by saying "NOW you're talking - I've got 50 Manx Nortons." - Well what can you say to that? - It became a quiet flight over the Pacific.
I never did get a thoroughbred British bike .. but I did own a
Reliant Scimitar GTE fitted with a
Holley carburetted Buick-Rover
V8 motor for years ("
THE BEAST") - I had a yellow
Lotus 7 copy for a while too .. SO impractical but very 'driftable'.
Our current nuclear free NZ regime is denying kiwi citizens their rights to self defence and the right to own firearms - while supporting Ukrainean rights and endorsing British & U S Military weapons of mass destruction designed to destroy millions of innocents. This is known as a dichotomy - or maybe a contradictory dictatorship.
There remain here some real Colts experts and Collecters who have studied and invested in historic early revolvers from way before I learned to toddle on rag rugs in wartime London .. plus there is a diminishing group of lawful target shooters and sports enthusiasts hanging on to their rights - So I'm just talking a bit about what I am learning as I go.
There are original Colts in New Zealand and there are some other good percussion revolvers including rival designs and copies.
An Original 167 year old Antique COLT
1849 Pocket Model .31 'cap'n'ball' Revolver:
An old Uberti 'replica' Remington copy .44" caliber 'cap & ball' buddied with the smaller antique Colt.
Non-Shooters might ask which is legal to own - but may not be used
- and which may be fired only when Registered, at an approved range by a licensed and endorsed 'Fit & Proper' owner - provided she pays massive fees & installs very costly Police Approved home security?
Nearly four years ago on March 19 2019 - the scum
BRENTON TARRANT murdered 51 innocents - and New Zealand Firearms Laws & gun owners were blamed by politicians for his terrible insanity. - Whenever something so awful happens .. Politicians feel obliged to do something about it. - But, as we have grown to expect - They ignore any useful revision that would be effective - and applied emergency restrictions on the nations most law abiding sector of FIT AND PROPER FIREARMS LICENCE HOLDERS - and seem to ignore Royal Commission findings of the failures by Police Licensing Authorities.
A Link to a great Forgotten Weapons video about one early type of Colt Copies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzRQ2l5N_K0
Well - Sam Colt Made It Just In Time:
Marty K.
Love those percussion revolvers.... I have three of them.... two Remingtons and a Colt... all replicas that I shoot a lot (Cowboy Action). I am wondering how long it will be before they are confiscated "for public safety". The upcoming register is for that purpose I am 100% sure. There will be another "incident" and the wider public will be told that all guns must be banned because it's just too dangerous to have guns in the community.
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say, the guns they need to get are the ones they never will, and the criminals will have the field to themselves, as they do in the UK.
I cannot believe our MPs (and police) are so stupid as not to realise that their laws make NO difference to the criminal misuse of firearms, so I am left with the only other conclusion, that the idea of an armed society frightens them.
I will leave you to ponder the question of why that might be..... Last time I speculated on it I got 30 days FB gaol...
100% Kathryn - "Democracy" was always very iffy but is totally farcical now. We definately need a reform to install a CITIZENS ASSEMBLY to rationalise administration - but that will take decades (if ever) meanwhile "Shooters Rights" will have gone for ever.
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