{"id":24932,"date":"2022-07-18T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24932"},"modified":"2022-07-18T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:15:51","slug":"random-gun-crankery-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24932","title":{"rendered":"Random gun crankery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember in my NRAAM coverage I threw in a photo, &#8220;At the weird intersection of SF geekery and gun geekery&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockislandauction.com\/detail\/86\/1247\/documented-mauser-broomhandle-dl44-heavy-blaster-pistol-prop\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s some more deets for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockislandauction.com\/detail\/86\/1247\/documented-mauser-broomhandle-dl44-heavy-blaster-pistol-prop\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perhaps the most iconic surplus firearms used as props in the movie however was the Mauser C96 pistol or &#8220;Broomhandle&#8221; Mauser, which would not only become the Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc. Model 44 blaster carried by many Imperial officers, but also the iconic BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster pistol carried by the stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, Nerf-herder himself, Han Solo.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V268Qk6-xsw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>RIA estimates $300,000 to $500,000 for this one. I&#8217;m not sure how this compares with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23322\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indy&#8217;s S&#038;W revolver<\/a>, as I can&#8217;t find any information on what that went for (or even if it was ever sold).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/18\/ria-dl-44-auction\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Firearm Blog also has a story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember in my NRAAM coverage I threw in a photo, &#8220;At the weird intersection of SF geekery and gun geekery&#8221;? Here&#8217;s some more deets for you. Perhaps the most iconic surplus firearms used as props in the movie however was the Mauser C96 pistol or &#8220;Broomhandle&#8221; Mauser, which would not only become the Merr-Sonn Munitions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24933,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24932\/revisions\/24933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}