End of Surplus?

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

> >>>>> "Joe" == Joe R <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> writes:
>
>  Joe> BTW speaking of things that shouldn't have been let out by Uncle
>  Joe> Sam, one of the more interesting things that I've found there
>  Joe> was a Gatling Gun from an A-10!!  He knew what it was and
>  Joe> wouldn't sell it :-(
>
> Bummer.  I'd like that one.  Why shouldn't it be sold, if
> appropriately deactivated?  I think the rule for stuff like that is
> that the barrel has to be cut, and/or the receiver disabled.

There are guys who collect this stuff so it does get sold.  One of the
largest collections is with a private collector in the hills of the
Silicon Valley.  I saw a (much) older generation tank on a trailer on the
freeway heading in that general direction last week ;)  The guy is
amazing.  He has a SCUD launcher, among other pretty amazing machines.
All de-weaponized.

http://www.milvehtechfound.com/index.html

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