Gunmanic

[KOTAC45]

Howdy,

I am German. Unfortunately the german gun forums become boring to me in the meanwhile, because its hard to find answers about american firearms.

As a matter of fact I am a huge fan of american firearms especially like the 1911, the venerable M14/M1A and of course of the AR15.

I own already a 1943 Colt Government with GHD markings, a Springfield Armory M1A "loaded" and a Strayer Voigt Infinity 45 ACP.

My next buy will be an AR15 / M16 derivate and i hope you guys can help me out if i have questions.

Greetings from Germany to Colorado and merry Christmas to you all.

P.s. and please excuse my bad english http://www.co-ar15.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Marlin]

Welcome, and Merry Christmas. What Part Of Germany You in? Spent 18 months in the Breman/ Bremerhavan area Myself. At Garlstadt.

[KOTAC45]

Hi Marlin,

i live in Ulm, South Germany. Thats right in between Stuttgart and München.

Several Firearms manufactures are located in Ulm like Walther, Anschütz and Krieghoff.

Thank you and nice to meet you. Funny to meet fellas here who did service in Germany [Beer]

[Marlin]

Did manage to get down that way once.[Beer] Ulm was the turnaround point for a road trip.

[PanamaDave]

Welcome to the forum and Merry Christmas to you as well. [Santa]

[KOTAC45]

Thank you PanamaDave even to you and you familiy merry Christmas!

You got nice stuff on your Homepage!

@ Marlin

next time you are in Ulm come on over and grab a cold becks at my house [Beer]

[7idl]

Willkommen an Bord [Wave]

[KOTAC45]

Vielen Dank und frohe Weihnachten http://www.co-ar15.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif !!!

[AR Will]

Howdy

[HunterCO]

Welcome. One of these days I want to go visit my homeland maybe you could show me around.[Beer]

[KOTAC45]

You are always welcome [Beer] just come on over, funny thing is i wanted to make a 2 week trip to Colorado with my best friend next year, hunting and fishing in the nature you know what i mean.

[RV4driver]

Actually, your English is better than most Americans on forums!
I have one Walther already, (wife's gun) and waiting for a new PPS. Good stuff!

Welcome.

Jeff

[Wallary]

Howdy! [Wave]

[B2crawler]

I just have to ask...what are gun laws in Germany like?

Welcome to the forum.

[vim]

Welcome. Pull up a chair and stay awhile.

[Ban1]

We're really quite harmless . . .

[Atrain]

Welcome to the forum!

[Beer] Prost!

[SigsRule]

Angenehmen. I loved Ulm when I last visited there, especially the cathedral. I was doing three weeks of Air Force reserve duty at Stuttgart in 1994 and traveled as much as I could. During the early 70's I managed the Berlin Modernization program and installed some of the radars and radios at Templehof and Tegel. I was also on one of the last commercial flights into Templehof and drank lots of Shulteis beer on the Ku'damm. Berlin is still one of my favorite cities in Europe.

[KOTAC45]

Angenehmen. I loved Ulm when I last visited there, especially the cathedral. I was doing three weeks of Air Force reserve duty at Stuttgart in 1994 and traveled as much as I could. During the early 70's I managed the Berlin Modernization program and installed some of the radars and radios at Templehof and Tegel. I was also on one of the last commercial flights into Templehof and drank lots of Shulteis beer on the Ku'damm. Berlin is still one of my favorite cities in Europe.

Yes the Ulmer Münster is really stunning if you see it first time ! Oh boy this is really funny to meet people here in this forum who did seen Ulm...[Beer]

If you nee something from Ulm let me know Sigsrule...

[KOTAC45]

I just have to ask...what are gun laws in Germany like?

Welcome to the forum.

German gun rules? Fullauto absolutely forbidden no military barrels either and the most worse thing is...you have to a lot of money for Guns here in Germany. [Mad]

It is even criminal to put a light or laser on your gun...imagine that.

Shooting on humanlike targets are even forbidden [M2] [Bang]


But the worst thing of all is....you cant get any rifle parts here like McMillan Stocks, ACOG´s and stuff like that.

I am desperatly looking for a TROY MCS or SAGE EBR Stock for my M1A here around but it is simply impossible to find parts like this [Rant1]

[SigsRule]

KOTAC45,
By a sheer coincidence I just traded a Sig Mosquito and some cash for a PPK/S .22lr. It was made in Ulm and has the Ulm proofmark from 1975. Interarms was the US importer and it has the Interarms engraving on the slide. It came with two spare recoil springs, a spare firing pin, a set of spare grips, and four magazines - two with the finger rest and two without. It turns out the magazines are very pricy here and hard to find, so getting four with the pistol was a real find.

Do you know if the factory can trace the history of when it was made and who it was sold to, by the serial number?

I'm also trying to see what it would take to have the barrel threaded for a silencer. I don't have an armorer's manual so it's not clear if the barrel is pinned into chamber or all one piece. Either way I was thinking of trying to find another barrel to have threaded and maintain the original.

[Sucka]

Happy B-Day [Beer]

[Chaffee2]

Welcome! The wife and I spent 3 wonderful years in Germany in the early 90's. We traveled all over Germany and Europe in general. We lived in between Spangdahlem and Bitburg on a small farm next to a beautiful creek and surrounded on all sides by thick dark timber.

I was a member of the Eifle Combat Pistol Team. We shot every Wed. night on the base range. We even traveled a time or two to different cities to shoot pistol matches.

I was back 2 years ago on my way to Russia. Only got to spend 3 days in Germany and that was outside Frankfurt.

Yesterday the wife and I was talking about the Chris Kringle mart (I'm sure I made a mess of the spelling but I hope you know what I mean) they have in Trier every year. The food and the beauty of the season is incredible. That was one of our favorite things to do in Germany.

Of course the people, beer, food, gun shops and the pretty women ain't bad either. I still remember some of the beaches we used to go to and some of the women that were there. WOW!

Welcome again! Hope you post some.