Pakistan Gun Market

[DBW]

Interesting.

http://www.vbs.tv/full_screen.php?s=DGF ... sc=1363196

[Sixgun]

I'll say. (interesting ) I wonder how many lopped off heads are laying around there.--------Sixgun

[kimwcook]

Sixgun, I doubt you'll find many infidels running around there. They wouldn't make it that far.

I've seen other videos of the gunmakers of Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. They can make anything with a little heat and a hammer. As said, they've been doing it for a looooong time.

[Rusty]

They actually value the guns made in the region over the originals too.

[jcwaters]

I actually plan on visiting Darra sometime in the next few years. I have always gotten on with most Pathan (pashtun) men and found most of them (I have met several dozen) to be very American friendly. They are the good ole boys of Asia, they like BBQ, pickup trucks, guns, and generally substitute beer with 'bhang' (pot) and shout "Amreeka zindabad!!!!" (long live America) whenever they find out I am an American, I speak a little Urdu and exactly two words of pashtun.

I will probably be in P-Stan this fall for a few weeks, but I am not too sure about travel to the north with the current crop of fools running the country. I might have to wait for the next Military junta to take control and settle things down a bit. From what I have heard the most valued long arms in P-Stan are HK G3's and MG3's ("Dushaka" is the local slang term). Second to these are Chinese made short AK's ("krinkov" in US slang), then new russian made stuff, then local stuff, then old russian stuff. This is suspect information, though, because Pakistani men are usually incapable of saying "I don't know" and just make stuff up if you ask them something that they can't answer.

-john

[Old Ironsights]

Other than the essential requirement to be a muzzie... doesn't look like too bad a place to live IMO...

[jcwaters]

Other than the essential requirement to be a muzzie... doesn't look like too bad a place to live IMO...

Actually being muslim is not a requirement. Most non-muslims did relocate after partition, but there is still an open Christian community in Karachi. This is reflected in the white stripe on the side of their flag, which is representative of the non-muslim minorities (Parsees, christians, sikhs, hindus, jews, etc.) never mind the sizable secularist streak in the big cities and military.

I would probably retain P-Stan as a place to visit and not live, my wife's family came over from there in the early 90's due to trouble with the then Military junta of Zia Ul Haqq. Trips to Gilget, FATA, Mardan, Lahore and so on might be fun, but living there would just be too much for me. Maybe I am still stinging from a year in the Arabian peninsula and feeling particularly patriotic, but I can't think of a single place other than the US that I would want to live...

[Old Ironsights]

.... Maybe I am still stinging from a year in the Arabian peninsula and feeling particularly patriotic, but I can't think of a single place other than the US that I would want to live...

Give BoBo & Pelosi a few more years...

The whole area (Khyber) looks a lot like where I grew up in Wyoming.

[jcwaters]

.... Maybe I am still stinging from a year in the Arabian peninsula and feeling particularly patriotic, but I can't think of a single place other than the US that I would want to live...

Give BoBo & Pelosi a few more years...

The whole area (Khyber) looks a lot like where I grew up in Wyoming.

Its really pretty up there, do an image search on google for "Mardan", "Swat valley", "Gilget", "Baltistan", and "hunza". My wife's ancestry traces back to Ghor provence in Afghanistan, but are generally the same ethnic group as the folks in norther p-stan.

[jcwaters]

.... Maybe I am still stinging from a year in the Arabian peninsula and feeling particularly patriotic, but I can't think of a single place other than the US that I would want to live...

Give BoBo & Pelosi a few more years...

The whole area (Khyber) looks a lot like where I grew up in Wyoming.

We should just combine their names, like o'bidelosi... A ruthless trifecta of hoplophobia

[Old Ironsights]

.... Maybe I am still stinging from a year in the Arabian peninsula and feeling particularly patriotic, but I can't think of a single place other than the US that I would want to live...

Give BoBo & Pelosi a few more years...

The whole area (Khyber) looks a lot like where I grew up in Wyoming.

We should just combine their names, like o'bidelosi... A ruthless trifecta of hoplophobia

Isn't there some bit o' magic that you can use to get rid of evil leprachauns like that?

Oh St. Patrick... Intercess for us and Rid us of these Snakes we implore thee...