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First Firearm: Going Old School With Military Surplus Firearms
Welcome to the Military Surplus Arms installment of the First Firearm series. For those not familiar with the series, we cover a different aspect of firearms and give you things to consider if it’s to be your very first firearm ever or the first of the type of firearm we’re discussing. For those that might not be sure what I mean by “Surplus” guns, a surplus gun is typically a government-issued firearm no longer in service. It is in surplus due to it’s being stored away after being replaced by something else. In these latter times, surplus guns came in waves by various countries selling off old hoards of rifles or handguns they no longer felt a need to hold onto. A few examples of military surplus rifles are British Lee Enfield, Japanese Arisaka, German K98, and the Swiss K31. A few examples of surplus handguns are Webley Mk VI, U.S. M1911, Browning Hi-Power and the U.S. M1917.
