{"id":85606,"date":"2024-01-30T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=85606"},"modified":"2024-01-30T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:31:22","slug":"the-most-expensive-machine-gun-ever-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/01\/30\/the-most-expensive-machine-gun-ever-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Expensive Machine Gun Ever Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p97k_BlvPKs?si=5BC8Dvc85nFnEExk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished  Nov 6, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Morphy&#8217;s recently took the world record for the most expensive machine gun ever sold at public auction &mdash; with a transferrable FN Minimi. It sold for a winning bid of $490,000, which became a total price of $588,000 after adding the 20% buyer&#8217;s premium. Good heavens. So today, let&#8217;s consider why someone might speak THAT MUCH money for a Minimi &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>\nweaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnhpZ1NHdlh2djZiRmdCS1gtczRkRTBWTkk0Z3xBQ3Jtc0tuYk5ENGhENHI5X0VxOGV3UnNxMXZ5dHJtb05Gb3lsLUU0TzhRQUNBN2dudnRqSFFSQ25Pb0RjendhdDZudkN0R2hMZ3lvOHgzR0E4RXVvUjdJMUp0bGtNOHpETHk5ZXRxUDFkR1N6bWVJYXJILTNFRQ&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floatplane.com%2Fchannel%2FForgottenWeapons&#038;v=p97k_BlvPKs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/For&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85740<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published Nov 6, 2023 Morphy&#8217;s recently took the world record for the most expensive machine gun ever sold at public auction &mdash; with a transferrable FN Minimi. It sold for a winning bid of $490,000, which became a total price of $588,000 after adding the 20% buyer&#8217;s premium. Good heavens. So today, let&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,13,663],"tags":[52,523,1366,49,1265,661],"class_list":["post-85606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-absurd","tag-belgium","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-machineguns","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mgK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85607,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85606\/revisions\/85607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}