Cannons baby!, Who's with me on making a bid??? Options

[Grimtooth]

Trying my hand at linkage

cannon 1



Cannon 2

You're gonna love these.

[TheOneRonin]

Nice. Looks like I'll have to clean out the garage to make room.

BTW, on the second link, you have HTTP:// twice. Getting rid of one should make the link work.

[Darkest Angel]

Heh.

[sidartha]

Put me in for forty five bucks I'm good for it :D

[Tziluthi]

:|

[Zazen]

Are these serious? When I was a teenager I used to eBay ICBMs, priceless works of art, porn stars, bowls of chili, etc. These look like something I'd do.

[Herald of Verjig...]

It's a gun themed auction site. These are probably authentic.

[edit] and these look entertaining.

[Solstice]

Don't get me wrong I'm a 2nd Amendment supporter...but WTF would someone do with these if they bought one?

[Voran]

Obviously of use if those darned redcoats try to take over your colonial farm. :)

[theartthief]

[Capt. Dave]

[Kanada Ten]

Getin' dem Injuns real gud.

[A Clockwork Lime]

We gots t'stave off the New World Order somehow, dammit. Damn bank people trying to take over the world. <shakes his fist angrily>

[Solstice]

ahhah yes, black helicopters falling from the sky....

[Arethusa]

[CardboardArmor]

Forget freedom of information, I'm clamping down before my players find that site and start asking if they can have one. I'm getting enough headaches from the Ork Sammie with the Ingram LMG.

[toturi]

Maybe Fanpro should reconsider the availabilities of the various heavy weapons. I can't wait for the day a Canon PAC goes for 1 :nuyen:.

[CardboardArmor]

But...but...Where would we be without our heavy weapons? We'd lose all inclination to do non-sensical things! Oh the horror of it all!

...And end sarcasm.

[Austere Emancipa...]

I'd be willing to bet a lot of money these aren't authentic. The original price tag of those weapons has got to be at least in the high 5-digits for the Vulcan, probably in the low 6-digits for the Avenger, USD.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it still illegal to privately own working cannons in the states?

If you shoot a helicopter with either of those weapons, it won't reach the ground. Well, maybe in shreds.

This post has been edited by Austere Emancipator: Mar 27 2004, 01:25 PM

[Voran]

Heh. Kinda funny the first one has a current bid price cheaper than buying a new release DVD. The 2nd one, well, hell, I could cover that in one paycheck. :P

Still, it'd be rather amusing to roll that baby out of the garage the next time some kids decided to whack your mailbox.

[TheScamp]

[blakkie]

Apparently if you are willing to jump through redtape hoops to get permits for ownership and transport most people in certain states can buy and legally possess things like this. Not that mere mortals could ever afford to pull the trigger, that has got to be some expensive ammo...

Further it might be possible that these items are past their service lifetime, so of no real value to the original owner (military).

[BGMFH]

There is a store called Shooters World where someone with a Class 3 can walk in and pick out a M16A4 Assualt Rifle.

Most likely, these are working, but heavily repaired items. The military discarded them, or sold them to be used as lawn ornaments or displays, and someone bought several and cobbled the pieces together to make a working unit.

Also, like someone said, think of the price of 4200 rounds per minute, at the SR value of 2 dollars a round for regular....

[Austere Emancipa...]

An M16 does not even begin to compare to these. You could tear a small office building to shreds with either of these. Haul them next to a highway and you can destroy every car within 3 kilometers in moments. Bolt it inside a van, drive it downtown during rush hour, fire it up and revel in the series of explosions as hundreds of people suddenly turn into a bloody pulp. Don't like low-flying aircraft? No problem, you can reduce them into a cloud of burning metal slivers in a second with these weapons.

And that's with non-exploding ammunition. I'm sure that isn't cheap, but if you could get those weapons so cheap, I bet it'd still be a lot cheaper to shoot them continuously for a few minutes than it would be to smuggle either cannon into my country, for example. With explosive or armor piercing ammunition and from a good fortified position, you could test the capabilities of your local Army National Guard unit, and you'd probably beat them.

In other words, I still think those aren't real, or at least they don't work (have the bolts removed, no engine, etc).

And seriously, $1,000 for a weapon that probably cost at least 200 times as much for the original user? I bet it'd cost less than $199,000 to do enough maintenance on the GAU-8 to get it back to working order. And where the hell did this seller get it from anyway, if he's ready to sell it again for that price?

[Tziluthi]

Note that the seller's reserve hasn't been met for either item. And the reserve is probably going to be at least in the 5 digit zone. How you would come across such a weapon, and why someone would buy it for any substancial sum is beyond me.