New gun

Well I finally got with the program and got a real gun. No more 50-80 year old rifles that have gone through multiple wars and decades of training. I finally bit the bullet, sold my MK-760 submachinegun and bought this nice Vector Uzi.
It's 9mm and fully automatic. It's actually a new gun as Vector bought a bunch of serial-mumbered receivers that were made just prior to the 1986 machine gun ban and they assembled them with parts from South African Uzis that were never fired but stored for decades until they were scrapped a few years ago.


The result is an Uzi with all new parts that hasn't been beat up for the last twenty years like most SMG's out there. In fact this one wasn't even fired by the last owner, the guy who actually purchased it from Vector. Of course I plan to shoot it and shoot it a lot.

These guns were first developed in the 1950's for the Israeli military by an arms designer visionary named Uziel Gal. The guns were so successful that they were adopted virtually the world over, including by agencies like the US Secret Service. Here's a Secret Service Agent with one on the day that John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Reagan.


They're robust, durable guns that can be taken completely apart without tools, and parts and accessories are commonlt available for them cheap since so many Uzis were made and used around the world. This is important as oftentimes it's hard to get parts for full-auto weapons. (The old MK-760 was a prime example.) But this gun is well-built and with a nice stock of spare parts, it'll likely last longer than I will and the way machine guns escalate in price, it'll give me a fine return on my investment someday unless I decide to hand it down to some future heir.

In the meantime though, I'm going to have fun shooting it and I'll sleep better knowing that when the bad times come, it's in the safe should I need it.