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I’m lifting this from Facebook:

Australian Gun Law Update.. September 28

Here’s a thought to warm some of your hearts….

From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia

Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real

figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The first year results are now in:

Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent,

Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;

Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

In the state of Victoria…..alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent.(Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady

decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.

Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in ‘successfully ridding Australian society of guns….’ You won’t see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information. The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note Americans, before it’s too late!

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Swiss Sola Side-Toggle Action .357 Magnum Pistol

One of a kind.

An apparent prototype made in 1970, the Swiss Sola .357 is a semi-automatic pistol with a mechanism similar to the one found on the Luger, but it’s sideways instead of being on top, which uses .357 Magnum ammunition fed from a box style magazine.

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Swiss ordnance 1882 revolver, 7.5mm Swiss

A good alternative to a Swiss Parabellum when you’re poor.

https://edelweissarms.com/w-f-bern-1929-35668/

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DWM Parabellum P.00 (fourth variant 2a series), in 7.65mm Parabellum, made in 1903. It was finished at Waffenfabrik Bern. Main difference with the first series is the centered trigger, allowing left-handed officers to shoot correctly with their pistol.

https://www.gunstorebunker.com/prodotto/pistola-luger-dwm-mod-1900-cal-765-parabellum/

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S&W Model 15 - .38 Special

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How about this sweet Throwback Thursday UZI ad eh? But just for LE agencies and qualified security personnel apparently.  🙄

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That awkward moment when guns are good enough to protect the President and the Pope just not the rest of us.

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Roast the Savage Model 99.

“The only person who could ever miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it.”

The boomer alternative hunting rifle. A cool gun entirely rendered moot by the fact it comes in 3 calibers. Now, that’s a misnomer because it does come in other flavors but you’ll be super hard pressed to be able to ACTUALLY find. I know someone out there actually has a .30-30 Winchester or a .308 version but I have YET to actually find one. At least .300 Savage isn’t too hard to find. Regardless, you know the drill by now. Let’s get into the actually quite lengthy history of these forgotten guns.

The 99 is an unassuming gun in the realm of ye old hunting guns because it’s so common. Every small town gun shop has at least 1-2 of these primarily due to how good they sold. Arthur W. Savage, the head of Savage Arms would basically make this his bread and butter payroll gun like the Remington 870 was for Remington and every lever action was for Winchester. At first, the idea was to make a brand new rifle that could handle the hot new military spitzer rounds because 1894. At first, the idea was to use a box magazine but that plan was scrapped until later, so Savage went with a rotary system to prevent chain fire detonations. And thus his rifle was born…kinda.

Savage had two flavors come out before the 1899 model. The first was the 1892, the one made famous for almost being adopted by the New York National Guard in response to the Spanish-American War. Due to the shortages at the time, most NG regiments still had Trapdoor Springfields and thus they wanted to buy the 92 as a substitute standard rifle in .30-40 but they were denied due to logistical issues. The 95 would then come out as well, sort of a proto 1899 but finally right before the new century dawned, the 99 came out and sold for a SOLID CENTURY.

I shit ye not, this thing didn’t leave production until 1998. Let’s finish off Savage’s history first. After making the 1899 rifle, Savage would soon fuck off to Duarte, California to found the Savage Tire Company and make radial tires. Yes, this man also invented that as well, Arthur Savage is a madman who did MANY things. Savage would go on to do many things like buy out Stevens, make the 1907 pistol and Lewis guns, contend in the 1911 pistol trials and lose only to almost win and many more. This history bit is too long so let me just shut the fuck up and get to the thing y’all want to hear.

The main problem with the 99 series is that most you’re going to find are in .300 and .303 Savage. From my experience at least, your mileage may vary. If you find a gun in .303 Savage, don’t bother. .303 Savage was replaced in 1920 with .300 Savage and is thus absolutely not made and you’d have to reload yourself. .300 is still in production and is basically just slightly slower .30-06/7.62 NATO so don’t go wild here. If you can find one in .250-3000 and want to have fun reloading, then go nuts cause that’s both historic as the first American made 3k speed round and also pretty good. Back to gun.

I’ve never handled a 99 that felt bad, and that’s saying something considering how old a lot of them are. Action’s tend to be pretty good, the whole thing is so overbuilt that you’d have to specifically go out of your way to blow one up. Is it complex as hell? Yes. Is it in a hard to find caliber? Yes. Has it been eclipsed by most modern cartridges and modern rifles? Most definitely. Is it still cool as fuck. Yes.

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Nobody Messes With This Great Man

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