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Bringbacks

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  • Apr 17, 2018
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    Please post up your bringback weapons up here.

    An no, for you 18 series guys please don't post pics of those "training" AKs that got "lost" when you came home.

    But if it is mostly legal to have let us see it. All bringbacks are cool and have a story.

    Please post the story and the guy who brought it back if you know who that was.
     
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    I'll start.

    1886 Lebel that was bought by Afghanistan sometime in the early 1920s. It escaped the Balle N update, has Dari writing on the butt, served in the Kahn's army, was captured and stored in Kabul by the Soviets and commie Afghans, moved by Massoud during the Afghan Civil War up to Panjshir, and I ended up bringing it home.

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    Lol customs confiscated my wind chime made from 82mm and mortar and 107mm rocket shratnel htf did you get papers signed to bring a rifle home legally?
     
    I know of a WWI Luger that was brought back in WWII that doesn't have the nazi proofmarks on it. Erfurt.
    I know of a L/E No 1 Mk IV (or is that a No 4 Mk I?)
    Ah, the days of Freedom and what it meant. And stood for.
     
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    I guess this would be a bring-back. It was brought back by the same person it went with.

    This was grandpa’s. He was a lieutenant commander in the Navy, stationed on destroyers in the pacific. His guys would decipher our incoming messages and pass the info along. When I was a kid, he mentioned to my dad that he still had his “gun from the war” in a file cabinet at his house. My dad never knew about it growing up. He gave it to my dad at that time, along with the holster, belt, mags, and mag pouch. Dad isn’t really a gun guy, so I always made sure to keep it oiled and clean when I would visit.

    About 15 years later, I was hanging out with Grandpa at his house. He was showing me a box of his Navy paperwork, when I came across the receipt. Holy shit Grandpa! He thought it was funny that, of all the things in this box, my eyes lit up over a receipt. He said a guy with a dolly full of pistol boxes showed up and said he was dishing them out to officers. This was at Pearl Harbor, February of 1944 (PH is on the upper left of the receipt). He said he never shot it as far as he could remember. We shot it a little bit when I was younger, and took Grandpa to the range about 10 years ago to shoot his pistol.

    He came back for Korea and then went on with his life. Lived to 99 1/2 years.

    I turned 35 a couple weeks ago and dad finally passed the gun on to me. I keep it liberally oiled, obviously. The receipt is safe, just not kept at my house.

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    Here’s a photocopy thats easier to read.

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    Stepdad's dad brought this one back in WWI....wish I had of been around in the 60s because on returning from WWII as a colonel the old man brought home trunks of memorabilia. Step dad remembers giving Thompson and other guns to his nephew in the 60s.

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    Only blemish is this mark on the right side....

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    I have learned the pistol was likely private purchase but in order to be acceptable for use in service it had to have a toggle lock back on the empty magazine....some unit armorer probably did the work.

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    This one was brought back by someone unknown to me. I am it's caretaker now...

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    This sort of stuff just tickles my heart...
    My father did not like firearms and had some great stuff he was given from the war and just gave it all away
    I remember looking at a couple of pieces in collections and exclaiming "What a nice bit of kit", only to find out
    my father had given it to him.....
    I ran into about half a dozen pieces that he had been given and just gave away over the years.😪
     
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    I'll see if I can get my dad's photos. He was in the 452nd General Supply Company stationed in Taji Iraq in 05-06. They were in charge or sorting and cataloging all the turn in weapons. He had gold ak's, gold 1911's and a shit ton of interesting weapons. Thankfully he has/had pictures. I'll post as soon as I get them.
     
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