Fella came in the other day with a shopping bag and said “You said you had an Uzi, I bought these years and years ago but never got around to getting an Uzi. Figured you could use ‘em.” Very cool, I said. What do I owe you? “Ah, keep ‘em”, he said. One good turn deserves another so I fished around under the counter and pulled out a couple Gamma Seal
This is a fella I mentioned earlier. He’s come to preparedness late but he’s making up for it with a vengeance. Since I’ve been at it longer than him, I contribute my two cents worth of opinion, direct him to vendors and sources for product, and just generally explore ideas with him. He works in an industry that has some use for people in our rarefied interest, so he does little things for me and I do little things for him. Neither of us really keeps track, we just do stuff like this from time to time. These are the kinds of relationships with other survivalists that I enjoy. It’s casual, comfortable, and everyone wins.
The magazine connectors (I keep trying to get him to stop calling them clips. No luck so far) are pretty solid and they’re a nice relic from the happy days when Action Arms was a real player in the market. They do seem to have some utility and, if nothing else, they’re a nice accessory to have with the original gun. I do need to get some more magazines, ideally at least one more full-size Uzi, and I’d really like to get one of these for the wife and have it SBR’ed with a short barrel. Sadly, there is no shortage of things to buy…only shortages of resources to spend.
Nice, If nothing else just as a cool authentic accessory.
Do mag pouches for the big Uzi mags for Glockamole 33 rd mags? It occurs to me that I should have some pouches for those things.
Im finding that most stuff marked ‘MP5′ = Uzi = Glock happy stick = Colt 9mm
On a related note, was just in the Philippines visiting family this past week and one of the things we did was go out into a rice paddy with some (probably illegal) guns and have some fun. XM-177, Uzi, Micro-Uzi, M-3, Gallil and a CZ-75 Compact. All full auto (except the CZ) and all mil spec. I don’t think the Uzi’s were original Israeli manufacture as I recall that there is or was a company in the Philippines that makes or made them for the military. Either way it was a blast but oddly enough the only guns I had jamming issues with were the Uzi’s and the Gallil. Must be an Israeli thing. To be fair though, none of the guns were in very good shape.
I’ve read somewhere that the Philipines has some tight gun laws and that they are fairly lax about enforcing them.
The Philippines is pretty lax about enforcing any laws outside of Manila, Cebu and Mindanao. My wife’s family is a politically powerful one that lives out in one of the provinces of Luzon and they own a school where they also train the local members of the PNP (Philippines National Police) so while the guns we were shooting were illegal there are probably very good reasons the fuzz was never called. I met an IPSIC shooter while I was there and he explained that you had to join a gun club to own a gun but once you joined it was pretty easy to buy a gun. They’re just expensive and ammo can be scarce. You also have to apply for a different CCW for each gun you want to carry but the permit is good for the whole country.