Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:15:08 -0800
Reply-To: Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
Subject: Re: gun hiding?
In-Reply-To: <20020125.140953.-334701.19.wilden1@juno.com>
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well, the twin 50s are from the second world war, and i got the ammo as
part of a container shipment from germany...came from some bunker in
berlin...the only time i had a problem the roof of the syncro was peeled
back like a tincan, but that gave me some room to make mods...and extra
hidey-holes customs doesn't know about.
b
On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 12:09 , Stan Wilder wrote:
> Since the firearms discussion hasn't got thrown off the list, I'd like
> to
> know.
> How long will ammunition keep .......... all my ammunition is from back
> in the seventies?
> I know than many armed forces personnel claimed that the old Vietnam
> ammunition for carbines had a lot of duds in it when they tried using it
> in Desert Storm.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:48:35 -0800 Bill Kasper
> <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU> writes:
>> god, i would never hide a gun in my westy. what on earth would make
>> you
>> want a gun *inside*? i have twin .50 caliber automatics mounted
>> *under*
>> my front luggage rack, with thumb controls on the steering wheel.
>> j.c.
>> whipme also sells a cool dual joystick controller that plugs into
>> the
>> mystery port just to the right of the steering wheel. we use this
>> on
>> long trips so my wife can bag us dinner. the only downside is the
>> heat
>> generated by the things...that'll be taken care of soon by the
>> ceramic-coated luggage rack, which will disperse the heat over the
>> whole
>> area and not melt around the gunports. ask me where i found to hide
>> our
>> ammo boxes!
>>
>> bill
>>
>> On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 11:27 , Chris Stann wrote:
>>
>>> I tend to keep my Uzi neatly slotted between the handbrake and
>> the
>>> driver's
>>> seat. One time I pulled into Wal-Mart, reached to yank up the
>> brake
>>> handle
>>> and... oooooops! Thank goodness for my bullet proof windshield!
>>> Scared my
>>> Greyhound silly, though.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On
>> Behalf
>>> Of mike miller
>>> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:14 PM
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Re: gun hiding?
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't hide 'em. Mount them above the driver. Kind of like a
>> little
>>> pill
>>> box up there already, in the Westies, which is what all us gun
>> toters
>>> have.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>>> And now back to our regularly scheduled gun-hiding-in-a-Westy
>> thread.
>>>>
>>>> Alan Bosch
>>>> & Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
>>>>
>>>
>>
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