Media FJ40 Pics from "Back in the day" (70's, 80's)
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Purchased before the foreign assault rifle band in 1989? It is a FN not the locally made FM that showed up shortly after the band in 89?
That one is a metric-pattern receiver made under license by Imbel; South American military surplus. Purchased after the 1989 ban was lifted. There was a time when you could get as many as you wanted here for $500-600 a piece. That one is a good shooter, maybe my favorite rifle ever. Or it was, before the tragic boating accident!
I did have a real, pre-ban HK91 that I bought new in 1979 or '80, that I foolishly sold for almost 4x what I paid for it, after the ban. Needed the money pretty badly at the time, but I wish now I had never sold it. The FAL is some consolation for that.
Mine were pre band Fabrique Nationale from Belgium. Believe the fal was $800 but is match grade. Didn't realize the 89 band was lifted. Know the Clinton band was a ten year. Had a RPK on order when the 89 band was started and company quickly canceled the order because it was now worth a bunch more. Did pick a Yugoslavia made RPK that was far superior to the one I lost which was Chinese. It originally had a plastic buttplate with the thumb hole. Company that sold them was also selling the wood stock and pistol grib.
That was it - not signed into law until 1994; allowed to expire without renewal in 2004. Nothing since then - it did absolutely nothing to reduce crime or violence of any kind.
The May 1986 automatic weapons ban under Reagan is still in effect. The March 1989 foreign assault rifle ban under Bush senior is still in effect. It only named certain guns. To my knowledge the original Belgium made fal and fnc are still banned. FN now makes the fal in the US. The Clintton ban in 1994 was on domestic made assault weapons and high capacity magazines over ten rounds. That was only for ten years and not renewed. Loop holes in of them. First two effected me directly. By 1994 all spare funds were going to Land Cruisers.
What I remember (could be faulty!) about the Clinton ban is that is was specifically on imported rifles, which was why the value of my German-made HK went up 4x.
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Floradora Cafe (sign at right in photo) is a great place for lunch or dinner. We've stopped there twice at the annual Solid Axle Summit.
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That photo was taken on the annual TLCA Thanksgiving Run in 1989 on the Santiago Canyon trail in Littlerock, CA. It was my first run with a bunch of other Land Cruisers. My 40 was bone stock and I beat the crap out of it on that trail but it sure was fun... Here is a group photo from that run (my 40 is in the second row, far right).