ScottD wrote:I think you may be sitting on a gold mine here. If you can get these receivers with the nose sections intact, people would pay thru the nose. 300 USD is not an uncommon price for that part. BUT, if it were that easy, someone would have already have done it. Spend some time looking into the legality of all this....you may just be Canadas next millionaire.
Hey, about bringing those parts to school.....the bolt head is about all you are going to pull off. (The camming piece needs to be drilled and looks like a little wedge) I wouldnt even think about the bolt or :gasp: the trigger housing.
I think , as this would be my "first m53 / mg42" build, i will probably pay for Pirate to do the job (unless that is not included in his price, then i could attempt a go at it). Just so i have an example in hand for me to look at, then maybe my second build, i will just buy his conversion kit, and set it up myself.
My main intention for the cheap receivers, was to actually look at selling entire semi auto mg42/m53 guns. I calculated it, and my costs look to be between $1200 - 1500 CAD. However the selling price of these, from what i gathered is between $4000-5000 CAD. They would also be classified as "non restricted" here in canada, the same class as a simple hunting rifle, so essentially anybody could own one (with 4-5 grand to waste
) .
I figure build the first one,
IF i can sell it, i'd be tripling to quadrupling my money, allowing me to make 3-4 more guns, and so on. Looking at it this way:
(The
most the guns would cost me, and what i think the
"average" price it would sell for, possibly sell for more)
1 gun cost me $1500, sell for $4,500
3 guns cost me $4500, I make $13,500
9 guns cost me $13,500, I make $40,500
27 guns cost me $40,500, I make $121,500
... and so on, in "theory".
Although i do figure, as numbers grow larger, individual costs become lower. In this diagram, i have left out all profits, as it may appear, by putting it all back into production costs. However this is only because 4500 is divisible by 1500, just to make it simple. When in actuality, i figure i will be selling for more than just 3 times the costs to manufacture. Thus pulling out maybe $500 from each sale, and putting the rest back into production costs.
Well this will all be in the future, and "Millionaire" i think would be pushing it, but i hope i can at least make enough for a few years of university!
I think the toughest part of this, is getting my mom to agree to applying for a firearms business license! I already conned her into getting a firearms license so i could have a gun
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still cant figure out how to edit posts...
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---bil
