Old Ironsights wrote:AmBraCol wrote:Anyway, right now I'm in Colombia. Long guns are difficult to obtain. Ammo is limitted to 100 rounds per six months per weapon.
Can you aquire brass & reload?
If so, a Rossi in .45LC will serve you nicely.
I don't know what hoops you have to jump through to get the rifle, but with .45LC brass and primers you can make everything else you need... (.45LC & homemade Black Powder were made for each other...)
Weapons here in Colombia belong to the Government. Even my "personal" Llama in 38 spl is officially the Government's. They allow me the priviledge of carrying it - except when they decide that honest, law abiding people are more dangerous than criminals and then they publish a "no weapons are to be carried" decree, usually for a specific time period such as during the days running up to an election, etc.
We are limitted to what is already in the country or what the Army stores carry. And they only carry whatever the high up muckymucks in Bogotá decide that they will carry. Mostly it's Colombian made Llama revolvers in 38 spl and 32 swl, CZ select fire pistols (LOTS of hoops to jump through and a yearly hoop jumping to renew the permit), Walther PPKE's, Walther 99's, Turk pump shot guns, Baikal singleshot shot guns, CZ Scorpion select fire subguns (see note above on hoops) - that's all I've seen in the recent past at the local store. Another option is to purchase from an individual a weapon that is already in the national weapons registry. But to do so one must "justify" (provide a plausible reason for) the purchase.
As for ammo, they do not allow reloading on a general basis. I'm looking into the possibility of doing so legally, but it ain't easy since no one around here does so legally and therefore are ignorant of the laws that may allow such a process. I've got a few hundred cases saved up of 38 spl. But aquiring the primers necessary isn't easy, to say the least.
Another lovely quirk is that one is not allowed to carry any weapon larger than 9.65 mm for personal defense. I'm sure this weird caliber designation was put into law to allow the carry of the ubiquitous 38 spl. Some bureaucratic moron in his infinite wisdom did the math to convert .380" to mm coming up with 9.65 mm - never realizing that a 38 spl is actually only .357" or so and not .380" in bore diameter. At any rate, the laws be what they be and since I'm a guest here I abide by them. In my own country we have an ammendment in our constitution that guarantees that the right of the people to possess and carry weapons will not be infringed so I accept that at face value - even though certain states and localities pass regulations infringing upon that right. Things are different when one is a guest than they are when one lives within one's own native land.
The open sight match is shot a 50 yards and the scoped match using a max of 4x is shot at 100 yards. The rules are pretty easy check them out on the links below.
