I’m at Waffen Sammlerborse 2025, which is a Swiss Gun Show. It’s an odd mix of SHOT Show, with its high-end manufacturers and impressively well-stock distributors and a local crappy gun show with Fudds, absurdly overpriced accessories and dusty war memorabilia of questionable authenticity. Way smaller than SHOT but way bigger than a standard gun show.
Swiss citizens have access to a much wider range of firearms than US citizens (including full-autos with the right license), so there was some pretty cool stuff here and there.
Here I saw what looked like a Hungarian milled-receiver AK-55 with this unusual metal sphere attached to the front end of the receiver where the lower handguard is usually attached. I believe the tag said it was a “tanker” if I remember correctly. Is that ball some kind of standard way to mount it to a receiver or is it a Swiss Bubba special?
Either way, the base rifle is pretty nice, it still has the auto-sear pin hole and original markings but I doubt that it is a full-auto. My understanding is that there are special rules for dealers when displaying full-autos that aren’t being met here. It is probably converted to semi-auto according to the rules in Switzerland, which are much less strict than those in the US.
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