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Just bought my first gun, a 1984 Wingmaster at the Crossroads of the West gun show this past weekend in Ontario, CA. I pick it up next Saturday and then I'll post some pics in the Post your Pics forum! The guy said he bought it in 1984 and never shot it. After inspecting it, I actually believe him, but either way, the gun is in great condition with no visible wear except for a little on the slide rails from cycling.
Los Angeles, CA 870 Wingmaster Ownwer
Re: Los Angeles, CA 870 Wingmaster Ownwer
Welcome to the forum! Sounds like a good buy, how much you get it for if you don't mind me asking? Good thing you got it before a ban on shotgun comes along too. News today that a 16 year old just went to school to shoot his classmate with a shotgun.nsutherl wrote:Greetings!
Just bought my first gun, a 1984 Wingmaster at the Crossroads of the West gun show this past weekend in Ontario, CA. I pick it up next Saturday and then I'll post some pics in the Post your Pics forum! The guy said he bought it in 1984 and never shot it. After inspecting it, I actually believe him, but either way, the gun is in great condition with no visible wear except for a little on the slide rails from cycling.
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Re: Los Angeles, CA 870 Wingmaster Ownwer
Carlo1137 wrote:Welcome to the forum! Sounds like a good buy, how much you get it for if you don't mind me asking? Good thing you got it before a ban on shotgun comes along too. News today that a 16 year old just went to school to shoot his classmate with a shotgun.nsutherl wrote:Greetings!
Just bought my first gun, a 1984 Wingmaster at the Crossroads of the West gun show this past weekend in Ontario, CA. I pick it up next Saturday and then I'll post some pics in the Post your Pics forum! The guy said he bought it in 1984 and never shot it. After inspecting it, I actually believe him, but either way, the gun is in great condition with no visible wear except for a little on the slide rails from cycling.
Ive been waiting for that to happen. The shotgun blows the doors off of an AR if your looking to massacre large numbers of grouped up people. If your going to ban "Assault weapons" you really have to ban shotguns too. Even a single shot 12 gauge could do major damage in the right hands.
Once they lock in the AWB i gaurantee theyll be coming for the shotguns if they arent already included as assault weapons.
Re: Los Angeles, CA 870 Wingmaster Ownwer
Lol, that's so true Kentactic. I hope everyone that can joined the NRA do so. NRA seems like they are doing there best and try to stop this. Goverment can have mine, but I'll give them the bullets first before the rifles lol.Kentactic wrote:Carlo1137 wrote:Welcome to the forum! Sounds like a good buy, how much you get it for if you don't mind me asking? Good thing you got it before a ban on shotgun comes along too. News today that a 16 year old just went to school to shoot his classmate with a shotgun.nsutherl wrote:Greetings!
Just bought my first gun, a 1984 Wingmaster at the Crossroads of the West gun show this past weekend in Ontario, CA. I pick it up next Saturday and then I'll post some pics in the Post your Pics forum! The guy said he bought it in 1984 and never shot it. After inspecting it, I actually believe him, but either way, the gun is in great condition with no visible wear except for a little on the slide rails from cycling.
Ive been waiting for that to happen. The shotgun blows the doors off of an AR if your looking to massacre large numbers of grouped up people. If your going to ban "Assault weapons" you really have to ban shotguns too. Even a single shot 12 gauge could do major damage in the right hands.
Once they lock in the AWB i gaurantee theyll be coming for the shotguns if they arent already included as assault weapons.
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BETTER TO BE JUDGED BY 12 THAN CARRIED BY 6
Re: Los Angeles, CA 870 Wingmaster Ownwer
He had it for 450, I ended up paying 400 for the gun and ~50 to the FFL so 450 out the door. I was prowling gunbroker for a couple weeks leading up to the show and was seeing ~80% condition Wingmasters going for $300-350, so I figured 400 for a 95%+ was a good deal. Plus, for how long this gun is going to last me, I don't mind spending and extra $100 up front for generations of funCarlo1137 wrote:Welcome to the forum! Sounds like a good buy, how much you get it for if you don't mind me asking? Good thing you got it before a ban on shotgun comes along too. News today that a 16 year old just went to school to shoot his classmate with a shotgun.
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Re: Los Angeles, CA 870 Wingmaster Ownwer
Kentactic wrote:Ive been waiting for that to happen. The shotgun blows the doors off of an AR if your looking to massacre large numbers of grouped up people. If your going to ban "Assault weapons" you really have to ban shotguns too. Even a single shot 12 gauge could do major damage in the right hands.
Once they lock in the AWB i gaurantee theyll be coming for the shotguns if they arent already included as assault weapons.
By the FBI's statistics over the past several years, rifles were identified as the murder weapon in only 2.72% of U.S. homicides, which is less than handguns or shotguns. Heck, nearly 5 times as many people were murdered with knives than with any type of rifle; even unarmed beatings claimed more than twice the number of lives that rifles did. And these numbers are for rifles of all types, not just scary-looking ones, because - big surprise - a bullet from a bolt-action works just like it would from a semi-auto.
If the anti-gun fanatics were actually trying to reduce gun violence (by subscribing to the laughable belief that passing more laws will affect people who don't follow laws), they would be attacking handguns - which are used in at least half of all recent U.S. homicides - instead of rifles.
They're going after scary-looking rifles because they're the logical first step in completely banning all firearms, of any type (a goal they have openly stated in interviews). Most people - even many gun owners - aren't very familiar with "assault weapons" outside of what they see in the movies (which does not help matters), making it easy to spread misinformation and outright lies about them in order to start the ban ball rolling.
Yeah, I'm ranting. But seriously, a 5-year-old could see the absence of logic in what these people are trying to feed to an American public who doesn't know any better...