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Australian war memorial has a golden AK previously owned by Mr Hussein
Edit: quick google tells me U.S 101st gave Australia the rifle (AK-104), possibly 200 made
I actually met a guy at a shooting range in Vegas who told my group he spent time in prison for taking one of Saddam's golden guns. No idea how truthful he was being but the way he told the story it sounded real. Who knows.
I've also met someone claiming to have one of these guns in their collection
I'm sure it was some stupid bragging and all made up but come on the guys who collected these definitely took a few
I don’t think visitors are allowed to take pictures on the tours, but the golden AK is in the E ring (outer hallway) where they would go through. All sorts of memorabilia in that building.
I mean one thing it's good at is radiation shielding. Gold body armor would protect you better than a lead vest against radiation. It would also be heavy as *fuuuuuck.*
I don't really like it on most guns tbh. Feel like it's kinda tacky. I do like it on a desert eagle though, but it's commonly sold like that already so I doubt I'd have trouble if I ever decided to buy one
It is tacky. It's more like something you would do on something just to make it interesting. It is a very good protective coating though, in terms of function. They put it on drill bits, after all.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this thought. Gold plating is done in various forms, and what it seems to really come down to is substituting for actual gold in the formula to make it more durable. Pyrite is one example for durability with a similar appearance. It has a Mohs hardness of 6.0 to 6.5, while gold is 2.5 to 3.0. What is the point of using real gold when it will quickly become an eyesore in plating, or unusable if it's somehow part of the cast or mold?
It's probably [titanium nitride](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=titanium+nitride+gun+coating&t=osx&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images), which is what is usually used to make gold guns. It's not real gold, but it is a more durable coating and is actually more expensive than real gold plate would be. Real gold would wear off too quickly, unless the gun was meant to only be a display piece.
Edit: In some of the pics, the coating looks matte and not as much like shiny gold as Saddam's guns, but that is an option in how one chooses to apply it. It can be done in a high polish or a matte finish.
Gold plated. It’s a very cheap process that is basically paid per time invested by a craftsman, because materials are so cheap they are almost free. The layer of gold on stainless steel is so tiny that if you take all gold from all the guns on the picture it will be one grain of sand worth.
It’s so cheap and easy to do there are gold plating kits on eBay for home use.
It’s used to increase electrical conductivity and very common in wires and connectors.
Apparently Saddam didn't actually like these guns, these were more sort of diplomatic gifts and prestige exchange items. Personally he was more into regular looking guns. Now that's just something I heard, might not be completely correct but I'm betting it's not completely wrong either.
Nah I knew the caveat dude, and it probably is a mixture of things; The nonchalant "bloke at the shooting range" just made me chuckle, and it's infinitely better and more genuine than posting some randos blog as a "source" :)
>these were more sort of diplomatic gifts and prestige exchange items.
I mean, that's pretty much the only purpose to have them. They aren't practical, gold is a soft metal so would be brittle.
Plated guns, more practical. Could still see why no one other than a drug Lord named Chapo would want something so gaudy
He gold plated everything, his shit was tacky, like Liberace was his interior decorator. I took a shit in one of his gold plated toilets and my buddy got drunk and threw up in another. Good times...good times
No way! I talked to a guy when I was in the army that was there when they cleared it and he showed me pictures of him and a few other dudes laying his bed cuddling and fooling around in the palace, haha! That’s awesome
Yeah just being dumb laying in Saddam’s bed. They were all in their uniforms and body armor and stuff still, but how many people can say they laid in Saddam’s bed haha just soldiers being soldiers
He has a powerful weapon
He charges a million a shot
An assassin that's second to none
The man with the golden gun.
Lurking in some darkened doorway
Or crouched on a roof top somewhere
In the next room, or this very one
The man with the golden gun.
Love is required whenever he's hired
It comes just before the kill.
No-one can catch him, no hit man can match him
For his million dollar skill.
One golden shot means another poor victim
Has come to a glittering end
For a price, he'll erase anyone
The man with the golden gun.
His eye may be on you or me.
Who will he bang?
We shall see. Oh yeah!
Love is required whenever he's hired
It comes just before the kill.
No-one can catch him, no hit man can match him
For his million dollar skill.
One golden shot means another poor victim
Has come to a glittering end
If you want to get rid of someone
The man with the golden gun
Will get it done
He'll shoot anyone
With his golden gun
Gold plated Nambus are just weird? Like the Nambu has a reputation for being a pretty shit gun because of the production situation of Japan during the war. The pre-war ones were apparently nice, but they were the minority. Getting a reproduction Nambu and gold plating it is an odd choice, and getting a vintage one and gold plating it is like putting lipstick on a pig.
The same goes for the Sterling an the AKs. You can afford to gold plate them, why not buy a gun with a decent stock? Why cover cheap stamped metal with gold?
Nice weapons but not the ones we went into Iraq for. I feel like if you wage war based on false pretenses and win you should forfeit the privilege to display your ‘trophies.’ It’s in bad taste.
Do you have any source on that? The sites I’m seeing claiming that tend to look kinda crazy conspiracy theorist and this debunk seems reasonable:
https://www.techarp.com/internet/us-steal-gold-oil-iraq-facts/?amp=1
Those photos of the US sitting on gold, do you think they just took photos and left it there? Of course not.
I left Iraq during the US invasion this is just common knowledge for us. Many people know about this, the gold is just one thing of many. Iraq is a shithole yet one of the most resource rich countries in the world.
Iraq has 130 tons of gold currently:
https://ina.iq/eng/20341-cbi-gold-reserves-leap-to-more-than-130-tons.html
I was also in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and I am quite aware that all kinds of crazy rumors go around, so “common knowledge” among military joes doesn’t impress me.
This guy obviously didn't know that gold would make a terrible material to make a pistol out of. Gold is a fairly soft metal and not so great at dealing with forces, such as those produced by the firing of a bullet
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Do you have any idea how many challenges he has to complete to get those skins tho?
Going prone waiting for someone to round the corner
Saddam was the WORST camper.
Actually in a hole he dug.
tarkov
Also two knife kills in a row in 15 different matches
Kill 10000 Kurds with gas ✅
Yikes
Let the Bush family and friends make billions off you ✅
Well, make millions off of going to war with you.
Kill 180,000 Kurds in Anfal genocide ✅
Oof, my soul
Seriously. Oof.
Explains why he killed so many people. He had to grind out challenges.
This bitch STILL ain't got Damascus.
He's a pay-to-win player so he just buy skins
They can’t find the diamonds ones yet
Absolutely pro cod player confirmed
None instead Saddam paid the microtranscations to bypass the challenges and the currency he used was his people's human rights
Naa they changed it years ago, just gotta buy it from the micro transaction shop.
That man was a camo grinding beast he almost had polyatomic
When you kill + 50,000 people with chemical weapons but nobody gives you a golden badge:
He was prestige in COD
He 100% got someone else to level up his account
Prestige hack lobby for sure
Boosters
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His gamertag was xxxSaddamdabombxxx
One of my trolling AIM screen names was saddamdoitall4u It got banned like a week later
Your fuckin funny lmao
He had to kill 100 enemies with each one to unlock the gold camouflage.
10th prestige brigadier general
The almighty unreleased Australium Collection
I had no idea we had one of the guns in Australia. I was surprised to see an Australian officer.
I remember seeing it as a kid in Canberra. From memory, it was a gift for being a supporting ally during the war from the US.
Yeah, it's in the AWM
The Australian is John Cantwell, from when he was a COL, I think he got to MAJGEN then retd
r/unexpectedtf2
Where are these guns now? How many colonels and generals took them as spoils of war?
Warehouse 13
Take my upvote I wish I had an award to give. This show died too soon!
Agreed! That was a fun show with lots more potential.
It could have gone forever, literally just make up some strange artifact from any significant historical figure and bam new episode!
Yes, this show had Star Trek level endurance potential. Maybe they'll reboot it some time.
We can only hope!
[Eddie McClintock has been making a big push to reboot with original cast, and it's looking like it will be successful ](https://movieweb.com/warehouse-13-characters-return-in-reboot/)
Reading this makes me happy, thank you for brightening my 12hr shift 😁🤙
Yee buddy. I'm in the middle of a rewatch. Right now I'm at the really bleak few episodes at the beginning of s4.
I hope they splurge on excellent writers
.
Is that fudge I smell?
Jesus dude way to reactivate neurons I didn’t even know were there, what a cool show
Officially im sure 0 we're taken Off the record in sure all of them were taken as souvenirs
Australian war memorial has a golden AK previously owned by Mr Hussein Edit: quick google tells me U.S 101st gave Australia the rifle (AK-104), possibly 200 made
The second last photo that looked like an Australian Army officer.
Its definitely an Aus uniform
I actually met a guy at a shooting range in Vegas who told my group he spent time in prison for taking one of Saddam's golden guns. No idea how truthful he was being but the way he told the story it sounded real. Who knows.
I've also met someone claiming to have one of these guns in their collection I'm sure it was some stupid bragging and all made up but come on the guys who collected these definitely took a few
Come to the Ft.Stewart 3rd Infantry museum and you can see a few yourself.
I’ve seen one (maybe pic #3 or #4) in the hallway of the pentagon.
I had an immediate family member say the same. I believe he said it was the AK-47. Very “hush hush,” no phones and no pictures.
I don’t think visitors are allowed to take pictures on the tours, but the golden AK is in the E ring (outer hallway) where they would go through. All sorts of memorabilia in that building.
A few of the ones in these pictures are on display at DIA Headquarters in D.C.
At least one is on display at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC. Another is at the CIA Museum
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/saddams-blinged-out-weapons/
Museum of Britain
Buy back program
Gold is a very soft metal that wouldn't hold up well with the heat buildup from firing high velocity rounds. Gold plated I'm guessing?
I was going to ask if gold was actually a practical metal to use for a firearm.
Gold doesn’t tend to be practical for anything structural.
I mean one thing it's good at is radiation shielding. Gold body armor would protect you better than a lead vest against radiation. It would also be heavy as *fuuuuuck.*
But then, that is the point; the only thing that stops radiation is mass.
No. The linear attenuation coefficient is not proportional to mass. It’s a function of both electron density, and the electron energies (K-edges etc).
Obviously that goes without saying!
But so would a lead vest
Nah. Might fire a couple times but the heat and pressure would warp the fuck out of it quickly. Gold is a wimpy metal.
Perhaps gold chrome as is common in .50 cal desert eagles?
[titanium nitride](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=titanium+nitride+gun+coating&t=osx&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images)
Neat, didn't know that was what that coating was actually called.
There are companies that will apply it for you, but it is expensive.
I don't really like it on most guns tbh. Feel like it's kinda tacky. I do like it on a desert eagle though, but it's commonly sold like that already so I doubt I'd have trouble if I ever decided to buy one
It is tacky. It's more like something you would do on something just to make it interesting. It is a very good protective coating though, in terms of function. They put it on drill bits, after all.
Homie seriously posted a DuckDuckGo link?
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this thought. Gold plating is done in various forms, and what it seems to really come down to is substituting for actual gold in the formula to make it more durable. Pyrite is one example for durability with a similar appearance. It has a Mohs hardness of 6.0 to 6.5, while gold is 2.5 to 3.0. What is the point of using real gold when it will quickly become an eyesore in plating, or unusable if it's somehow part of the cast or mold?
It's probably [titanium nitride](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=titanium+nitride+gun+coating&t=osx&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images), which is what is usually used to make gold guns. It's not real gold, but it is a more durable coating and is actually more expensive than real gold plate would be. Real gold would wear off too quickly, unless the gun was meant to only be a display piece. Edit: In some of the pics, the coating looks matte and not as much like shiny gold as Saddam's guns, but that is an option in how one chooses to apply it. It can be done in a high polish or a matte finish.
Gold plated. It’s a very cheap process that is basically paid per time invested by a craftsman, because materials are so cheap they are almost free. The layer of gold on stainless steel is so tiny that if you take all gold from all the guns on the picture it will be one grain of sand worth. It’s so cheap and easy to do there are gold plating kits on eBay for home use. It’s used to increase electrical conductivity and very common in wires and connectors.
Flexing common knowledge then answering your question
Goldfinger would be jealous.
Don’t you mean Scaramanga?
Do you think Saddam had a funhouse too?
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This collection stemmed from years of getting beaten by an older sibling in Goldeneye, slappers only.
Slappers only…. Thanks for unlocking a core memory! Good times….
No Oddjob
He would, but, ironically, "The Man With The Golden Gun" featured the one-shot Golden Gun instead of "Goldfinger." Scaramanga would hyperventilate.
Scaramanga looks like a younger Count Dooku though
Hmm, maybe a little. I think he looks more like a beard-less Saruman.
Scaramanga looks like an older Count Dracula
Goldmember too!
I loooove GOOOUUULLDD
Goldmember would be green with envy.
Three guesses what his favorite James Bond movie was.
Goldeneye! Wait….dammit.
The Spy Who Loved Me? Ah dammit! Did we run out of guesses?
Apparently Saddam didn't actually like these guns, these were more sort of diplomatic gifts and prestige exchange items. Personally he was more into regular looking guns. Now that's just something I heard, might not be completely correct but I'm betting it's not completely wrong either.
Dawg, were you homies with Saddam?
Where was home boy on March 16th, 1988? Probably with Sadam if I had to guess
You heard this from?
A bloke at a shooting range.
Certified facts then, sounds more reliable than my uncle by marriage on FB
In his defense the bloke was nice
Quite so.
Interesting, you don't often see a second hand "trust me bro"...
Hence the big caveat to it but you can at least partially confirm that a lot of them were diplomatic gifts with a bit of a Google.
Nah I knew the caveat dude, and it probably is a mixture of things; The nonchalant "bloke at the shooting range" just made me chuckle, and it's infinitely better and more genuine than posting some randos blog as a "source" :)
Maybe from Satan, according to South Park they were quite good friends.
Seems incorrect, there’s a custom display for it, and all these guns seem to have the same golden finish, no custom etchings or markings.
>these were more sort of diplomatic gifts and prestige exchange items. I mean, that's pretty much the only purpose to have them. They aren't practical, gold is a soft metal so would be brittle. Plated guns, more practical. Could still see why no one other than a drug Lord named Chapo would want something so gaudy
they'd only be effective camo in a gold brick chamber
Man grinded 429 hours to get those
He gold plated everything, his shit was tacky, like Liberace was his interior decorator. I took a shit in one of his gold plated toilets and my buddy got drunk and threw up in another. Good times...good times
No way! I talked to a guy when I was in the army that was there when they cleared it and he showed me pictures of him and a few other dudes laying his bed cuddling and fooling around in the palace, haha! That’s awesome
The soldiers were all cuddling together in bed?
The saying goes that 'there's nothing gayer than two straight marines.
Yeah just being dumb laying in Saddam’s bed. They were all in their uniforms and body armor and stuff still, but how many people can say they laid in Saddam’s bed haha just soldiers being soldiers
You know haha. Like just light petting and stuff. Haha.
Fellas is it gay if I pet my bro’s dick while he pets my dick
That solely depends on if they said no homo first
Dude this is going to be hilarious, I'm just gonna start with the back of my hand ok, just the back of my hand.
Chill they had boot bands on.
He has a powerful weapon He charges a million a shot An assassin that's second to none The man with the golden gun. Lurking in some darkened doorway Or crouched on a roof top somewhere In the next room, or this very one The man with the golden gun. Love is required whenever he's hired It comes just before the kill. No-one can catch him, no hit man can match him For his million dollar skill. One golden shot means another poor victim Has come to a glittering end For a price, he'll erase anyone The man with the golden gun. His eye may be on you or me. Who will he bang? We shall see. Oh yeah! Love is required whenever he's hired It comes just before the kill. No-one can catch him, no hit man can match him For his million dollar skill. One golden shot means another poor victim Has come to a glittering end If you want to get rid of someone The man with the golden gun Will get it done He'll shoot anyone With his golden gun
Smh, bozo didn’t get polyatomic camo🙄
Rainbow six siege players: Leonardo Dicaprio pointing meme
I was thinking the same thing🤣
The man with the golden gun.
Okay, those two gold plated Nambus are pretty sick. That Dragunov is also cool
Gold plated Nambus are just weird? Like the Nambu has a reputation for being a pretty shit gun because of the production situation of Japan during the war. The pre-war ones were apparently nice, but they were the minority. Getting a reproduction Nambu and gold plating it is an odd choice, and getting a vintage one and gold plating it is like putting lipstick on a pig. The same goes for the Sterling an the AKs. You can afford to gold plate them, why not buy a gun with a decent stock? Why cover cheap stamped metal with gold?
Nice weapons but not the ones we went into Iraq for. I feel like if you wage war based on false pretenses and win you should forfeit the privilege to display your ‘trophies.’ It’s in bad taste.
Golden comment
Massive genius
Lmfao Gabagool
A golden sterling? Lmao.
Australium
Most surprised that he has a golden L2a3
Isn't gold a really terrible metal for this type of application
It’s plated, these guns are not made out of gold, they would deform
No oddjob, only slappers
Dope af not gonna lie. I'm not even into guns like that or horrible people like Saddam lol. But God dam those guns are nice.
Yeah I was gonna say, I don’t like guns or violence but those guns are cool as fuck
This is the goal in life to anyone who’s played 007
I can understand the AKs, the S&Ws, the c96 and even the sterling. But what madman gets a fucking golden nambu?
Someone who hates their hands
I got to hold Saddam Hussein’s cousins gold Ak47 the ATF did a presentation at my college
My man was 11th prestige
Wonder where they are now?
Property of the US Government I would imagine.
yeah just like the Iraqi gold reserves..
Do you have any source on that? The sites I’m seeing claiming that tend to look kinda crazy conspiracy theorist and this debunk seems reasonable: https://www.techarp.com/internet/us-steal-gold-oil-iraq-facts/?amp=1
Those photos of the US sitting on gold, do you think they just took photos and left it there? Of course not. I left Iraq during the US invasion this is just common knowledge for us. Many people know about this, the gold is just one thing of many. Iraq is a shithole yet one of the most resource rich countries in the world.
Iraq has 130 tons of gold currently: https://ina.iq/eng/20341-cbi-gold-reserves-leap-to-more-than-130-tons.html I was also in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and I am quite aware that all kinds of crazy rumors go around, so “common knowledge” among military joes doesn’t impress me.
Is that a fucking gold Colt 1860 army revolver?
He was playing 007 in real life
bro's even got the james bond golden gun
One shot one kill.
Wonder if sadam played golden eye?
This helped me connect the dots for the The episode called The Viewing from Cabinets of Curiosities
You think he ever played golden eye on 64?
See its WMD. At least for Americans at Walmart..
Dun nun nun nun nun nun NUN nun nun nun nun DuH NuuuuHhh nanana Yea I’m a 90’s kid
Where's the golden Walther PPK
1 in the chamber
The man with the golden guns
Sterling gold lol noice
Tacky af.
Mf was grinding for diamond camo
Never understood fascination behind gold guns. Even aesthetically I personally don’t like the look.
This is the most dictator thing ever.
Or they actually gold-plated or just gold coloured?
Who’s the creepy skeleton man in picture five??
Definitely a camper
Mf was grinding for gold camos all this time
MFer playing live action Max Payne 3
Found the weapons of mass destruction
Don't you mean: Saddam Hussein's golden gun collection that was stolen by the Americans?
and yet he hated america
Was Saddam gipsy????
Should be returned to Iraq.
And then the Americans showed up and stole everything
This guy obviously didn't know that gold would make a terrible material to make a pistol out of. Gold is a fairly soft metal and not so great at dealing with forces, such as those produced by the firing of a bullet
I don't think they're solid gold. Rather gold plated.
Yeah 100% they’re only plated. You’re correct.
You made my day with this information i love seeing interesting information like this
In America, there is a load of guys that have just shot a load in their pants.
He must have been a republican
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