If you don’t like seeing historical firearms rusting away waiting to be sent off to the melter then don’t continue, it’s hard to look at.
These pictures have made the rounds on most of the gun forums online, they’re supposedly from somewhere in South East Asia, most likely Vietnam. Imagine all the battles these guns were part of. What a shame…
M1340 mini guns
M60s and AK mags and parts
Czech ZB30s
Pile of AK-47s
Bazookas and M1 Thompsons
Enfields, 1903 Springfields and M1 Thompson magazines.
.50 cal and M60 machine gun parts, Russian DP28 machine guns, Bren and M16 magazines
HK G3 and Mauser K98s
RPGs
Grease guns
Brens, M60s and a Hotchkiss M1914 machine guns
Assorted machine guns, RPGs, magazines and a flare pistol.
M60 and Brens
Recoilless rifle
Stack of RPGs
German MG34s
A view of the gun graveyard
Baseplates
A sea of magazines
Pile of Thompsons
.30 cal machine guns
[Source: project-x.org.uk/armsdumpindex]
No wonder m3 grease guns thompsons brens 98 mausers and chzec zb30s are so hard to find. Theyre rotting away in assia.
I’ll buy the metal by the ton 🙂 just give me few tons of what you got and I’m sure I could make something of it
just breaks my heart im in tears
When are these photos from?
Are any parts for sale?
I NEED THOSE GUNS! YOU JUST NEED TO CLEAN THE GUNS AND GET A PAINT JOB! THOSE ARE WORTH A FORTUNE ESPECIALLY THE TIMMY GUN’S (M1 THOMPSON), MG34’S AND ALL OF THE ABOVE! WANT! PLUS, TONNES OF MAGAZINES! AND AMMUNITION!
I agree that it is most likely Viet Nam. The US left an enormous amount of ordnance and munitions in South Viet Nam during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The Soviet Union supplied a tremendous amount of their equivalent hardware to North Viet Nam. After we left the Republic of Viet Nam to its own devices (a move not reciprocated by the USSR towards the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam!), much of the modern US weaponry such as M16 rifles were traded or sold globally, such as to nations in Central and South America. The WWII era stuff was obsolescent and mostly just sat. In such a tropical environment, the service life of weapons is not long. When they have corroded too much to be serviceable, they just keep on rusting.
Lol i meant like to use the old technology and combine it with the new studf
That is terrible those guns could be reused in the army
Does the govt of that country realize what these would be worth cleaned up? It would build a school or hospital or two..
They would probably not be worth very much. The first problem is that they expired from lack of diligent maintenance in an extremely harsh, high humidity environment that just EATS steel and wood. Most became unserviceable DECADES ago, with extensive pitting and components rusted together permanently. Not that some couldn’t possibly be restored, but they’d be basket case projects that would take an extreme amount of highly skilled gunsmithing. Assuming some could be restored, then what? They cannot legally be reimported to the US, and no other nations want them either. The third world militaries have moved beyond this WWII era equipment, and outside of the US, I can’t think of any nation that will permit their citizens to lawfully possess firearms that are taxed under the NFA here in the States. The only way they could sell them at all is as scrap metal.
Makes me so sick…
Where is that?
They’re supposedly from somewhere in South East Asia, most likely Vietnam. learn to read
I would take them all if i could.
good guns meat a bad fate
Its just a little rusty, its still good!
Dang! That is crazy! Such a shame.