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Well it has been over one year waiting for the tax stamp and finally ATF passed me. I picked up my M6 about 2 hours ago. Is there any suggestions that anyone can give me before I start shooting it? Any tips on cleaning it etc will be appreciated. Thanks Tom

Ruger AC556, UZI, M11, or? Anyone in this group have an extra sub or machine gun that you may be willing to sell me? I think there are many cons out there advertising items they don't have and wanting to cheat people out of their money. Just thought I would put it out. My budget is between 9K up to 14K. Thanks Tom

I FOUND ONE. Thank you all!

Hi All, I finally got my Ingram Model 6 to the range today. In short, I was very impressed. I spent some time with 15 year old handloads of lead 200gr SWC over 5.5 gr. WW-231, factory 230 ball, and whatever else was lying around the reloading room. Every time the bolt closed it ran just fine. Not bad for a gun that has been lying in pieces for many years. (Another story.) I did have a bit of trouble with the semi-auto trigger resetting at times. I had changed the sear spring and trigger spring earlier as I thought the wrong parts were assembled in the gun. Turns out the "borowed" trigger guard was stopping the trigger from moving correctly. Funny about the ejection on the gun. The extractor is on the top but the ejector is a bit to the left of center. It throws brass high over the right shoulder of a right handed shooter. It will be fun to drop it on the head of the range officer in the next match The magazines loaded very easily and ran empty every time w/o a problem. I can trace the ownership of the gun back to Gainsville Florida. It is in park finish now as the pitting on the gun makes it look like it was left in the wet trunk of a car. Just out of curiousity, I think this gun may have been offered in 9mm. Has anyone seen a bolt for 9mm? The bolt is an interesting assembly that has some interesting low-tech machine work. More like what I would do at home. You can guess where this is going. The bolt weight would make a dandy 9mm running about the same speed as a Swedish K. All in all a nice little gun that I'll be spending more time with at the range. Enjoy, Grasshopper

Hey everyone, My great uncle (US Navy and police officer) left behind a mutt of an Ingram M6. It appears to be a military style since it has the ring for the strap on the stock, the smooth barrel as opposed to the finned barrel, but it has a hybrid forearm grip, it looks like a combination of both military and police models. On the base of the barrel it reads: Ingram Patents Pending, Police Ordinance Company, Los Angeles California, M6 Millitary, 1128. I will add some pictures so you can see what I mean by its similarities to both designs. Just trying to gather info. From the looks of it either the base of the barrel was sealed up on purpose or thats a few lead rounds that mushroomed together and got jammed before the rifiling starts. ---- The story my Great Aunt tells goes: My great uncle bought it off a guy who ended up getting arrested for selling to (Cubans?) when my uncle took the gun to get fixed (not sure what he was fixing or if this is why the forearm/grip is different) he was driving on the parkway with it on his back seat, The toll collector saw it and radioed ahead, when he got off the parkway he was then arrested since he forgot all of his papers and id's at home. All his buddies at the station laughed at him that following Monday for getting temporarily arrested untill he proved he was a cop.--- He may have been going to get the squib load jammed in the barrel fixed but never bothered after this ordeal and it's been in his attic since 1981? well, as far as I know I wasn't around till '85 -- Pardon any error in terminology as I only recently aquired my FFL and I am brand new to shooting and collecting. Thanks guys

Hey everyone, I posted yesterday in the Ingram M6 forum, and everyone's being alot of help, just wanted to throw this question out to a broader group in case one of you may have some extra insight. My great uncle passed away in '91 and recently while cleaning my great aunts attic out I came across his .38 special service revolver and an Ingram M6 military with modified police grip (been up there since '81 she thinks?). He was Navy WWII and local police afterwards. She gave me both since I had JUST aquired my FFL and purchased my first .22 (the M6 has been deactivated/disabled with some sort of block in the base of the barrel). If I can't find his paperwork, Is there any other way to go about registering it or digging in to records so I can bring this gun back to life and get it unblocked, as a family/inheritance/transfer. I'd hate to see it just hang on the wall or end up back in an attic. Thanks everyone, So far you've all been a great help to this newbie. ------ I believe emmagee1917 just answered my main question to the T in my other post, of course any other random info is appreciated, thanks again everyone! -----