[LJ2ME] Unexpected post Cold War benefits:

[hirez]

Being able to buy surplus strichtarn from a bloke in a shed in deepest Devonshire.

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[reddragdiva]

I am deeply appalled there is no Wikipedia entry on strichtarn. I shall have to remedy this.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I note that Ossi squaddies (germiener?) were a little less broad in the shoulder than the JH-R, and the original buttons are all sorts of crap.

The chap had all sorts of odd surplus for sale at $cheap, too.

I'm only a bit glad I resisted the temptation to purchase an AK-47 and a box of 7.62

[reddragdiva]

BTW, seen this? Kalashnikov holding an M-16 and Stoner holding an AK-47.

This is Kalashnikov in his late twenties.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Coo-er.

The various stories of the development of the M16/AR15 and the legendary Stoner Rifle are sometimes fascinating.

There were also a fuckload of long arms in this place. It was rather worrying to see the crap kit that the chaps had to use during the Falklands, um, campaign.