I just bought an original fully functional USGI standard issue model 1911 .45 pistol, it was manufactured in 1918 and saw service in WW1, WW2 and Korea. This is a genuine piece of American history and i'm proud to own it, I can only imagine the stories it would tell if this pistol could talk.

 

I wasn't planning on purchasing this, but I came across this the other day and the deal was just too good to pass up.

 

Here are pictures of it, the one that I purchased is on the left:

good pickup..... they look in very good condition

Nice man... More to add to your HUGE HUGE HUGE collection!!

With all the guns you've bought lately, it seems you're planning on shooting a lot of

people. Just make sure they're mets fans. :thumbup

That's really neat man.

I'm not a big gun man but if there was ever anything I could get into about guns its collecting them for their historic value. Many of them are pieces of art as well, much less weapons.

Just out of curiosity.....what did that bad boy cost ya?

i wanna see pics of the whole collection now.

i wanna see pics of the whole collection now.

 

He did post tons of pics of his collection in the past, i'll see if i can find the thread

With all the guns you've bought lately, it seems you're planning on shooting a lot of

people. Just make sure they're mets fans. :thumbup

More than half the guns I own are firearms with historic or nostialgic value that will never be shot, and the ones that I own for defensive purposes I pray that I will never ever have to use them on anything more than a paper target at a range.

 

Just out of curiosity.....what did that bad boy cost ya?

Heh... just a hair under what it costs to buy full season tickets in the Field Box. I leave for bootcamp in 23 days so I bought it as a present to myself.

I'm not a big gun man but if there was ever anything I could get into about guns its collecting them for their historic value. Many of them are pieces of art as well, much less weapons.

Collecting old historic firearms is very easy and actually VERY cheap until you get into the very rare and very high end ones. If you go to pretty much ANY gun show, more than half the guns there for sale are old historic firearms (called C&R's or curio & relics) that are all 50+ years old and will range you anywhere from $65 to something like a Russian Mosin-Nagant to about $200 like a German K98 - all of which have a lot of history. History American firearms like the Colt M1911, a Springfield 1903, or a M1 Garand are substantially more expensive than firearms from other countries.

 

After a firearm went out of service the government made it police to give the weapons back to the people of the country because the tax payers are the ones who paid for them. The government set up programs like CMP (Civilian Marksmanship Program) where a citizen could purchase an American firearm no longer in service like a Springfield 1903 or an M1 Garand, and the prices were simply what it cost to produce them and nothing more. They did this for both the M1 Garand and the Springfield 1903, as well as a few others - BUT - for the handguns like the Colt M1911 they did no such thing. The anti-gun lobby pressed for the government to DESTROY every 1911 when it was finally replaced by the Beretta M9 after more than 75 years in service and sadly enough the anti-gun lobby actually won and millions of 1911's that saw heavy combat in virtually every single American conflict and war dating back to the early days of World War 1 all the way up to the late 1980's were DESTROYED.

 

They weren't just destorying evil guns, they were destroying American history. So now original 1911's like the ones picture in the first post of this thread are extremely rare and the few that are still left are either in museums, the hands of serious collectors, or are owned by family members of the actual service members who used the pistols during a war and were passed down as a family heirloom.

 

So I consider myself very luck to be able to own this firearm, and when i'm 40 years old it will most likely be worth upwards of $25,000+, but I never plan on selling it, i'm going to keep it and enjoy it and when I have kids pass it down to them when they're old enough.

 

There is a gun show tomorrow in West Palm Beach at the South Florida Fair Grounds. I'm planning on going and hope to pick up some vintage accessories for my "new" M1911, like an original WW1 era holster, some bandoleers, magazine pouches, etc. I'd love to frame it all in some nice looking shadow box. But anyways, I highly encourage you to go, most of the people there are old collectors who buy and sell vintage stuff and you will see a LOT of historic old expensive stuff as well as a lot of cheap and reasonably priced historic stuff and you'll really enjoy looking at everything regardless of your political beliefs.

Accord is in the military right? And he still calls firearms "guns"?

 

Youve got some splainin to do mister.

nice I love stuff like that

 

I want a revolutionary war musket

nice I love stuff like that

 

I want a revolutionary war musket

Expect to pay several thousand, and that's for one that isn't even functional.

nice I love stuff like that

 

I want a revolutionary war musket

Expect to pay several thousand, and that's for one that isn't even functional.

Or even a real one.