Interesting story to this Norinco double folder:
Not long after I opened the store a customer came in to sell a few rifles. One of them was an early GSAD imported Norinco 56. I very quickly noticed there was a 3rd axis pin in it, popped the top cover and sure enough it had an auto sear and even a rate reducer installed. I asked if he was aware it was a machine gun to which he denied any knowledge of. Said he bought it used and owned it for 12 years but never shot a round through it. I promptly told him I wasn’t interested in it and to get it out of the shop. I’m assuming he was now afraid I’d call the police on him (meanwhile I’m assuming he is a fed trying to trap me) because he didn’t want to take it with him. Neither of us wanted anything to do with it. After a few minutes I came up with a solution for him. I offered to cut it up per guidelines and legally destroy it in front of him, only afterwards would I buy it cheap as nothing but a parts kit from him. He quickly agreed and said “I don’t want anything to do with that gun, do it”. It was heartbreaking to do, not because it was a machine gun rather it was a rare import. Fast forward about 7 years and it’s previous owner and I are now friends. He was / is not a fed and it was not a trap. He truly didn’t know the gun was an unregistered machine gun and bought it that way from another local shop (that probably didn’t notice it). From what I’ve read the movie industry converted a bunch of these to MG’s and a handful somehow got out into circulation back in the day.
I just finally rebuilt it on a @childersguns receiver and blued it to match. Not sure the deal with the furniture on it, it’s what came on it and looked good. Looks like Chinese wood.
*personal, not for sale
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