big guns and silly hats ! everything for a good time =P

*Stewie voice* Hey Karno, playing with guns, you know, guns, that are fun to play when noone's around? making sure your ears are plugged? using cheap ammo than expencive? got a sniper? I bet you do

Now we see more evidence as to why your Avatar/fursona is a giraffe.
What is the Uncle-ish fellow in the Gentleman Walker hat toting? I can't really make it out.

Left to right: Mp40 "Schmiesser", V61 "Skorpion", AKS47U "Krinkov", AKM (standard AK-47), Yugoslavian M70 (AK47 variant)

Wow, that SMG the man one from the left has is tiny. Is it a good piece?

That's my VZ61 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0korpion_vz._61

uses same ammo as the tokarev?

Uses 7.65mm, AKA .32 Auto

How's that weird-ass russian rifle of yours doing Karno? Take that one on the trip with you? :) I'd love to even just fire that thing a few times, just to say I had.

Are you running that as a pistol, SBR or Class-3? Always thought the Skorpion was a cool little gun, but kinda wants the folding stock to really keep it's complete "coolness".

It's a "SBR". Hard to see in the photo, but it has the stock.

Nice! I didn't know anyone was doing those commercially, just all the "pistols". Or was it a custom build?

Mine was made as a SBR. You can't get them anymore, but some people convert the pistol versions.

ooo looks like much fun was had?

You're the hottest man of the bunch, Karno :D and the tallest.

That is a lot of shells. And plaid shirts.

"Join the Tucson Mob and see... men in hats! Just don't laugh or we'll shoot your ass off. See that over there? That used to be the ass of a guy who crossed the Tucson Mob. Doesn't look much like an ass, does it?"

Actually, I have tried to join the Tucson Mob. I never received confirmation I was "in".

You're in in spirit, but to join in the flesh, you kinda have to be here. In the flesh, that is.

I understand to be a "full" member I'd have to be there, but I was thinking I'd be considered an associate or honorary member.

http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Tucson_Mob

When I was involved in furdom, the ONLY place I felt "at home" was at ZonieCon with the Mob. I certainly didn't fit in with the Shanda Fantasy Arts clique. Outside of a handful of other acquaintances, I was pretty much the LONE Wolverine of furdom.

Thoitainly you can be an associate member! The Tucson Mob has associates all over the world. Just take Patpahootie here for example, he lives in Australia, but he's still one of us. Tucsonery is a state of mind, and all that.

If it's all right with Wolf, Shep and the others, count me in then.

It's certainly nice to belong.

Seconded, yer In, Steve.

*bows respectfullly to  fragman1919a4 and  karno*

Thank you both. It certainly feels good to belong.

Yeeee-haw!

Hey! Shep has a Skorpion! Cool.

Love the pic of you in the lower set.

Yes, took me 3 years to get the paperwork cleared to get it.

Oooh - why so difficult? Machinepistols give the government pause for thought?

The Russians have some damned interesting full-auto pistols these days.


You guys collect the coolest schtuff!

It's not even full auto, but it's a "short barreled rifle" (because it has a stock), which for some reason makes it more dangerous than a proper rifle or a pistol.
But it took so long because of some bureaucratic fuck up.

I still crave a decent matchlock!

Just the ticket: http://www.militaryheritage.com/musket15.htm , and without the touchhole drilled, it's not a gun!

ooh - there you go!

So how are you, you long-lost twin brother you?

Skulking about, as usual! I'm doing fine. How about you? How go things in the merry old land of Oz?

Oh - pulling myself together slowly. Yaaay!

I may be headed down that way this summer to visit friends in Phoenix. If I make it, I'll have to stuff my weapons in the trunk and pop down to Tucson for some plinking with you :)

When the revolution starts, can I stop by and pick up some goodies at your place?

It's good to get the practice in before the zombie apocalypse starts. ^_^

Does the guy at the far left have a Shmiser (sic) (the Nazi SMG?) I recognized the Scorpion, the weapon that the Red Brigade killed Aldo Moro with in Italy.. A couple of AKs, whats the one in the middle?

"Schmeisser", it's proper name is the MP-40. That's Mitch Beiro holding it. Wolf in the middle is holding a AKSU-74, a short version of the AK used by vehicle crews (All the guns in the photos except the second AK from the right and Karno's shotgun are mine, everyone else had already put theirs away by the time we decided to take the picture).

I'd love to join the Tucson Mob and shoot guns in the desert like a true blue-blooded 'merican. Where do I go for such fun?

Meet the Mob, be tolerable, don't piss anyone off, and you might just be a member.

I've had expert training in being tolerable and I have a 3rd degree blackbelt in being charming and witty.

charming and witty doesn't fly with a bunch of straight guys (oh, yes, we have a token 'Mo)
but in general, we get along with most folks.

Its the Mustache Mafia of Tuscon! Sweet.

Crap I missed another shooting trip! Damn you employment! XD

I see many great and wonderfull guns but missing a couple classics M1 and M1 carbine. Maybe a mini gun or two.

Darn it...another mob shootout that I was probably invited to but either totally forgot, or had to work during.
And my Maadi would have been so at-home with all those other AKs.

D.O.P.R

I REALLY have to make it down there one of these days...

Niiiiiice.

hey, it's good practice for the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!
their coming, i know they are!!

Guns are illegal.

Only criminals have guns.

you've been reported. to Flag[at]whitehouse.gov

Looking at the photo again and knowing the apporoximate age of the photographed, it looks like a real man's version of "Last of the Summer Wine".

All you need is a guy dressed up as King Radical from Dr. McNinja, and this would be perfect.

"What happened to
You men of might
When things were wrong
You made them right "

Most of those men are in Tucson (heh)

Extra credit for anyone who dopes out what song I got that lyric from.

You guys aren't pro environment are you!

Make sure you kill as many things as possible.

That's what God wants.

How can one join when living outside of the Arizona region? I can't help living in any other of the 49 states, but I can't fire off a gun?!? WTF?!?

Oh holy fuck.. You live in AZ?
I'm over on the far west side of Phoenix!