Krieghoff FG 42 SOLD!!!

[heers68]

This Krieghoff FG 42 recently sold on a popular auction sight under this description: "Rare and Impressive Krieghoff Second Model FG-42 Fallschirmjaegergewehr Paratrooper Rifle, BATFE Registered Fully Transferrable Machine Gun with Boxed Ammunition" Sale price $322,000!! Thoughts?? Best, Kevin.

[heers68]

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[1933 FORD NUT]

Holy craptastic Rocky !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[17thairborne]

A new record for the FG. I believe last high price was $195,000

[Bob Hritz]

Obviously there is still money in top end arms. I am a bit surprised with all the negativity about private ownership of arms and movement to ban them.

Bob Hritz

[james m]

All one has to do is look at the results for any recent auction at Julia's or Rock Island to verify that there has been no rollback in firearms pricing due to the ongoing recession. I see this on a smaller scale at gun shows and local auctions here all the time.
I sold almost every firearm I brought to the Crossroads show 2 weeks ago.
Jim

[WalterB]

What a terrific and historical weapon. Wow

[helmetbuyers]

Hi...


two weeks ago... in the SAR building at the Phoenix gun show... there were two for sale in a glass case.

One was $350k... the other $475k. No joke. I doubt he sold them.

Robert

[mdk220]

what a beautiful gun - about a year ago this one was for sale for 137,500 and I thought that was way too much - boy was I way off.

[heers68]

Anyone see a sale price on the first version with the steel stamped butt and extreme angled pistol grip??? Always liked them the most but never seen one in person! Kevin.

[HAF]

322k$ is a lot of money me think it was becose this one was full auto and registred that way via US laws ,a deact i have seen here in europe for 25k euro ,but i do understand that a deact is not was it should be .....

[blitzkrieg gsd]

Just like I always said and been told it's worth what a guy who wants it will pay for it. And you have to think how many registered transferable full auto FG. 42 are out there? I wouldn't think very many at all. So if you want one you better be willing to pay more then the rest of the guys that want one to. So I think,it was a fair price if I had that kind of money to spend on toys I wouldn't have thought twice about paying it to put it in my collection.

[bmg17a1]

The second edition of "Deqth From Above" by Dugelby and Stevens lists the number of all types of FGs known and verified around the world at the time of publication at about 205. Of this number 78 have been reported in the US and of those , 58 are allegedly in private hands. It is assumed these FGs are all legally registered in the US, and probably those in other countries are also legal.
Type 1 FGs are in the minority here, few FGs of earlier manufacture seem to have survived and only one or two are in the US.
In recent years, various examples of FGs, mostly 2nd types have surfaced that are "illegal" where they are purported to be and and are offered for sale. A number of FGs have been offered to buyers in the US from sellers overseas, but these guns would have to have the receivers and barrels destroyed to allow legal import in to the U.S. Remaining parts are not restricted here. Several Type 2 "kits" have been offered for sale in the US in the last five years or so.
While 58 exmples may seem to be an extremely low number of registered guns in the US, there are many types of MGs in the registry that are represented by fewer examples than that and generally speaking, overall numbers of registered MGs of almost all types is quite low. The point is that 58 can actually be regarded as a fairly large number by this perspective. FWIW