As the year comes to me I'm looking for a gift dealer. I went yesterday
traveled, and went to visit a friend who does not visit much. He has a gun outside the usual distribution. Rather it is a "cave" for the club, away from the center and hard to find.
Each visit is a pleasure not only for what they have Sergio in your business, but what they know and because you buy one or not is an excellent conversationalist on weapons issue.
When I explained he was not seeking anything in particular, gave me one of the Mauser family members who have for sale. Germans, Yugoslavs, Turks and Persians.
For those unfamiliar with the subject, the brothers designed by 1871 Mauser bolt for a rifle that evolved the next thirty years leading to some of the best rifles of its kind: the Karabiner98 Gewehr98 and its derivative widely used in the first and second world war, first to turn the venerable Mauser Modelo Argentino 1909.
The point is that in conversation about the merits of the mechanism got something that proves that the weapons themselves are neither good nor bad, only tools humans that trigger.
In 1948, when Israel declared its independence, the Haganah was desperately in need of reliable weapons. So he bought thousands of rifles Kar98 of postwar German surplus. So
rifles that identified the soldiers of the Wehrmacht ended up defending the Jews. The efficiency of the gun was such that even Israel Kar98 new units commissioned the Belgian Fabrique Nationale and the Czech Ceska Zbrojovka
Down, a survivor of a hundred battles shows that prove the story dies. (See above the label that also identifies the change of gauge, when the Israelis chambered for 7.62 x 51 to serve the reserves well into the seventies)
