BillinBama

Looks pretty much like mine:

Well, it never fails, as soon as I posted this I found an LM7 kit on GB, hasn't been one in a while.

I have been searching the various gun forums for any recent info on the LM 7 belt fed upper, that Lakeside machine made years ago. I have one, shot it a good bit but it's been sitting on the shelf for several years now. I guess I should sell it but there are no listings to compare pricing, and they only rarely pop up anywhere. Does anyone here own one? I'd love to compare notes.

Yes, selling as a kit is the way to go, and it's no longer a firearm so no restrictions. Put it on Sturmgewehr.com and also Snugbus.com.

I knew I had a photo of the box with the MG in place...

You may have, but I keep finding things that I had forgotten about, so.... I'd plead the 5th but I can't remember what that is.

The gun is in one of my safes, of course.

That should work, Suomi and M75 mags have basically the same outer dimensions. The one on GB for sale with the Mac 11 strap is identical to a couple I have, I've never tried them on my 76 mags so I guess I'll have to do that. AS for the stripper clips REKRAPS referred to, he got most of mine but I still have a few, I'll have to check on that too, a mind is a terrible thing to waste but mine is almost gone....

I think I got one of, if not THE last one Mr. Lake built. I'm glad he simply retired and is not departed! There have been others who have built them in the past, one guy was on Facebook and I messaged him but never got a reply. I think he was in North Carolina. I've attempted to make my own, but the box that holds all the little spare parts can only be make using a milling machine, its practically impossible using a router (AMHIK). All that said, the box from Mr. Lake wasn't cheap, going for $500 plus shipping to the US, which means I have over $600 invested in mine. I will probably sell it at some point if someone is willing to pay the price, I like it a lot, but other than transporting the gun to the range it is not as useful as I imagined, although it is really nice to have for display purposes. But I always take my MP40 out and put it in the safe, so its a conundrum. Here's mine:

I sold an MP5 to a customer a few years back, and with the increase in prices, he wants me to find a buyer for it. I pulled up my records and also examined the gun, and nowhere on it does it show anything other than as a factory gun(by markings). It has the Sterling, VA stamp on the mag well, but it isn't an overstamp by appearance. HOWEVER, the Form 4 lists is as a 94/MP5, and the gun itself is a clip-on trigger assembly, with a fake pin showing. The manufacturer on the Form 4 lists HK, with no indication anywhere of anyone doing the conversion, which obviously was done at some point. My Form 3 from the seller to me also shows HK as the maker, and the model being a 94/MP5. It is a four digit S/N gun, so I'm sor of mystified as to who made it, and exactly how to advertise it. He has fired it some, but not much, and it has always worked flawlessly. I also sold him a Liberty Mystic X can with the 3 lug bayonet mount, but he's never used it, but wants to sell it too. In every other MG I've ever had go through my business there has always been a secondary maker listed, like Fleming, Erb, Wilson, etc. to show who did the conversion, but not this one. I guess I didn't notice when I originally sold it to him, and too many sunsets have passed since then for me to accurately remember.

Neat! Nice to see it's still in good hands and being used.

They are in the movies, so.....

Hey, they never went away, don't you watch TV?

Enlarging the pics didn't help, I don't even think I can read it with a magnifying glass. BUT, I just checked ebay and found several code of all his SOF articles and picked one up for $15 shipped.

I've never seen that article before, Kokalis didn't like the K huh? I will have to blow he pics up a lot to be able to read it but just the title tells me what he thinks. He was a very opinionated guy.